PART I: MAPS (1949), [39 p.]

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Explanation of signs :

— Peoples, Physiographical boundaries … [iii]

— Political boundaries … [v]

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1. III Bronze Age period (1300-1100 BC) … [1]

2. IV Bronze Age period (1100-900 BC) … [3]

3. V Bronze Age period (900-700 BC) … [5]

4. Period Hallstatt C (700-550 BC) … [7]

5. Period Hallstatt D (550-400 BC) … [9]

6. Early La Tène period (400-250 BC) … [11]

7. Middle La Tène period (250-150 BC) … [13]

8. Late La Tène period (150 BC-Birth of Christ) … [15]

9. Early Roman period (Birth of Christ – 200 AD) … [17]

10. Late Roman period (200-375 AD) … [19]

11. Early phase of the period of the wandering of nations (375-453 AD) … [21]

12. Middle phase of the period of the wandering of nations (453-500 AD) … [23]

13. Late phase of the period of the wandering of nations (500-527 AD) … [25]

14. Final phase of the period of the wandering of nations (527-568AD) … [27]

15. Early phase of the I Early Historic period (568-600 AD) … [29]

16. Middle phase of the I Early Historic period (600-700 AD) … [31]

17. Late phase of the I Early Historic period (700-800 AD) … [33]

18. Early phase of the II Early Historic period (800-900 AD) … [35]

19. Late phase of the II Early Historic period (900-950 AD) … [37]

20. Early phase of the III Early Historic period (950-1025 AD) … [39]

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PART II. TEXT (1948), 144 p. (translated by Teresa A. Dmochowska)

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Dedication … 5

Contents … 7

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I. PREFACE … 11

Problems of method. Mode of execution and scope of the Atlas.

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II. BIBLIOGRAPHY … 19

List of the more important books and maps consulted for the preparation of the Atlas.

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III. COMMENTARY … 27

Indoeuropean linguistic groups. The aboriginal homelands of the Pre-Indo-Europeans. Time and place of their division into individual linguistic groups. The Pre-Slavs and the Lusatian culture. Beginnings of this culture.

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MAP 1: III BRONZE AGE PERIOD (1300–1100 B. C.) … 31

Spread of the Lusatian culture. Motivation of the changes introduced into the determination of its extent. Beginning of the differentiation of Lusatian culture into groups.

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MAP 2: IV BRONZE AGE PERIOD (1100–900 B. C.) … 34

Extent of the Lusatian culture and differences in contrast with its extension in the preceding period. Pressure of the continental Pre-Teutons from the North-West. Alien influences upon the culture of the Pre-Slavs visible in the domain of metallurgy. Increase of the density of population and territorial growth of the Pre-Slavonic area. Relations with the Balts. The Ulwówek-culture and the Central-Little Polish culture.

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MAP 3: V BRONZE AGE PERIOD (900–700 B. C.) … 40

Further Pre-Teutonic pressure from the north-west on the Pre-Slavonic peoples. Vestiges of the survival of the representatives of Lusatian culture in north-western Brandenburg and eastern Mecklenburg till the close of the Bronze Age. Pre-Slavonic expansion to Volhynia. Beginning of the so-termed Wysocko-culture. Conditions which determined the direction of the Pre-Slavonic expansion southward.

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MAPS 4 and 5: PERIODS HALLSTATT C (700–550 B. C.) AND HALLSTATT D (550–400 B. C.) … 43

Territorial losses of the Pre-Slavs in the north-west. Lusatian strongholds on the Lower Oder and the West-Pomeranian ,,corridor” of Lusatian culture in this region. The culture groups of house-urns on the Middle Elbe in the Pre-Slavonic — Pre-Teutonic — Pre-Celtic border. The Halle-culture. The Balto-Slavonic border. Shifting of elements of Lusatian culture to Podolia and the region of Kiev. Emergence of the Volhynian culture in result of the intermixture of Pre-Slavs, Thracians and Scyths. The Enets-Venets. Contacts with the South. Climax and fall of the Lusatian culture. Causes of this fall. The beginnings of the expansion of Pomeranian culture. Incursions of the Scyths. Climatic changes.

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MAPS 6 and 7: EARLY (400–250 B. C.) AND MIDDLE LA TENE PERIOD (250–150 B. C.) … 50

Further pressure of the continental Pre-Teutons and expansion of the Celts. Blend of the Lusatian and the Pomeranian culture and rise of the Bell-Barrow culture. Unification of the Pre-Slavonic area. The gradual penetration of the Pre-Slavs into the region of Kiev, Chernigov and north-western Podolia. The problem of the identity of the Pomeranian and the Bell-Barrow culture with the Bastarns. Were the latter Teutons? The decline of the Pre-Slavonic culture.

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MAP 8: LATE LA TENE PERIOD (150 B. C. – Birth of Christ) … 56

Shifting westward of the boundary of Pre-Slavonic culture. Further Celtization of Silesia. Growth of the Pre-Slavonic territory in the northern part of the Dniepr-basin. The Sarmates as the successors of the Scyths. Fixity of the north¬eastern boundary of the Pre-Slavonic area, and its similarity with the modern anthropogeographical and ethnographical border. Information about the shipwrecked ,,Inds”. The Venedian culture as the continuation of the Lusatian culture and of the cultures derived therefrom. The alleged void of settle¬ment in the III and II c. B. C. in the basins of the Oder and the Vistula. Problem of the emergence of the first North-Teutonic tribes on the southern coast of the Baltic. The so-termed ,,East-Teutonic” culture and the real significance of the advance westward of the western frontier of its area. The Burgunds and Ulmerugians. The Oksywie-group and the Przeworsk-group of Venedian culture

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MAP 9: EARLY ROMAN PERIOD (Birth of Christ – 200 A. D.) … 63

Invasions of the Goths, Gepidians, Burgunds and Vandals. The Veneds and the Velts in the light of records from the I and II c. A. D. Spread of the Slavs westward beyond the mouth of the Oder. The union of Lugian tribes. The Veneds, the Velts and the Venedian culture. Expansion of the Slavs across the Carpathians southward into the basin of the Tisza. The Zarubińce-culture in North Ukraine and South White Russia as counterpart of the eastern portion of the Slavs. The northern frontier of the Roman Empire and its relation to the territory of the Venedian and Zarubińce culture. The Teutonic, Celtic, Thracian and Sarmatian neighbours of the Slavs in the south. The Amber-trade route.

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MAP 10: LATE ROMAN PERIOD (200–315 A. D.) … 73

Further extension of the area of Venedian culture. The similarity of its extent with the extent from the foregoing period. Emergence of intermixed Slavo-Teutonic cultures as the consequence of the centuries-long stay of the Teutons in Slavonic lands. The occupation of the Dniestr basin by the Venedian culture. The Veneds in the Tisza basin and at the mouth of the Danube. The Antae and the Goths.

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MAPS 11–14: PERIOD OF THE WANDERINGS OF THE NATIONS (375–568 A. D.) … 81

The Hun invasion and the decline of the political and cultural influences of the Goths. The Slavs in the Hungarian Plain under Hun domination. Adoption of Germanic tribal names by the Slavs. The wandering of the Heruli from the Danube through Slavonic lands to Sweden. Associations between the Venedian culture and the culture of the early historic Slavs. Slavonic relics from the V and VI c. in Poland, Saxony, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and Roumania. The final occupation of Bohemia and Moravia by the Slavs. The Slavs reach the line of the Middle and Lo¬wer Danube. The expansion of the eastern Slavs up and down the Dniepr at the cost of Finnish and Baltian tribes. Absence of changes in the Balto-Slavonic border on the sector between the Gulf of Gdańsk and the Berezyna as evidence of the stability of ethnic relations. Vestiges of Teutonic settlement in Slavonic lands.

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MAPS 15–20: EARLY HISTORIC PERIOD (568–1200 A. D.) … 93

Principles of the division into periods.

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MAPS 15–17: I EARLY HISTORIC PERIOD (568–800 A. D.) … 96

General characteristics of the period. The Slavonic expansion to the Balkans and the islands of the Aegean. Their spread westward into the East-Alpine lands, the regions on the Middle Elbe and the western part of the southern Baltic coast. The Germanic tribes in the western Slavonic border become weak. Consolidation and further spread of the Slavonic tribes in the west. Their maximum achievements in the VIII c. The Baltic Slavs and the Vidiva-rians. Shifting of the Old-Prussian area westward. Truso, an ,,early Viking” colony in the Balto-Slavonic border. Further progress of the Slavs north-eastward. The tribal union of Antae and the Avars and Khazars. The ethnic mosaic in the lands occupied by southern Slavs. Differentiation of the Pre-Slavs into nations and the rise of state-systems in their area.

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MAPS 18–19: II EARLY HISTORIC PERIOD (800–950 A. D.) … 125

The formation of solid state organisms in Slavonic lands. The Great Moravian state. The state of the Croats and the federation of Serbian tribes. The consolidation of the state in Bohemia. The beginning of the Polish state. The ad¬vent of the Magyars to the Ukraine and their definitive settling down in Hungary. The Latinization of the Slavs in the Valachian Plain and in Moldavia. The consequences of the emergence of the Pechenegs. The stabilization of the western Slavonic frontier. The spread of northern Early Russian tribes to the west, the north and the north-west.

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MAP 20: BEGINNING OF THE III EARLY HISTORIC PERIOD (950–1025 A. D.) … 133

The states of Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia. Continuous German pressure upon the lands of the western Slavs and their encounter with the Polish Kingdom. The first unmistakable traces of the stay of Vikings in west-Slavonic lands. The groundless theories concerning the pretended Viking origin of the Polish state. The participation of the Slavs in the rise and fall of the Scandinavian commer¬cial emporium in Haithabu in Slesvig. The progressive expansion of the Prussians to the detriment of Pomeranians and Masovians. The territorial growth of the Early Russian state and its colonial successes chiefly in the north and the north-east. The fights between Russians and Pechenegs. Fights with steppe tribes.

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SUMMING UP … 141