West Slavs

The West Slavs are the subgroup of Slavic peoples who speak a West Slavic languages. They separated from the ] The West Slavic languages diversified into their historically attested forms over the 10th to 14th centuries.[]

West Slavic speaking nations today include the ] They inhabit a contiguous area in ]

The West Slavic combine can be dual-lane into three subgroups: Lechitic, including Polish, Kashubian and the extinct Polabian & Pomeranian languages as living as Lusatian Sorbian and Czecho-Slovak. Culturally, West Slavs developed along the sorting of other ] thus coming under the cultural influence of the ]

History

In the Middle Ages, the have "]

The ] The first independent West Slavic states originate beginning in the 7th century, with the Empire of Samo 623–658, the Principality of Moravia 8th century–833, the Principality of Nitra 8th century–833 and Great Moravia 833–c. 907. The Sorbs and other Polabian Slavs like Obodrites and Veleti came under the direction of the Holy Roman Empire after the Wendish Crusade in the Middle Ages and had been strongly Germanized by Germans at the end of the 19th century. The Polabian language survived until the beginning of the 19th century in what is now the German state of Lower Saxony.

At this time only 60,000-80,000 ]

The central Polish tribe of Western Polans created their own state in the 10th century under the Polish duke Mieszko I. For numerous centuries Poland has hadties with its western neighbors, with the Polish ruler Bolesław I the Brave declared by Holy Roman Emperor Otto III as Frater et Cooperator Imperii "Brother and Partner in the Empire".

The precursors of the Czechs i.e. Bohemians migrated into ]