Penkovka cultureThe Penkovka culture (Пеньківська культура Penkivska kultura) is an archaeological culture in Ukraine, Moldova and reaching into Romania. Its western boundary is usually taken to at the middle Prut and Dniester rivers, where contact with the Korchak culture occurs. Its bearers are commonly identified as the Antes people of 6th-century Byzantine historiography.
DulebesThe Dulebes, Dulebs, Dudlebi or Dulibyh (Дуліби) were one of the tribal unions of Early Slavs between the 6th and the 10th centuries. According to medieval sources they lived in Western Volhynia, as well as southern parts of the Duchy of Bohemia and the Middle Danube between Lake Balaton and the Mur River (a tributary of the Drava) in the Principality of Hungary, probably implying migrations from a single region. The etymological origin of their ethnonym is uncertain.
PolotskPolotsk (en Полоцк) ou Polatsk (en Полацк ; en Polock) est une ville de la voblast de Vitebsk, en Biélorussie, et le centre administratif du raïon de Polatsk. Sa population s'élevait à en 2017. Polatsk est arrosée par la Dvina et située à au nord-ouest de Vitebsk et à au nord-est de Minsk. Polatsk, appelée Polotesk par les Protoslaves, est dérivé du nom d'une petite rivière affluente de la Dvina, la Polota. La ville fut ensuite appelée Paleskja et Paltejsborg par les Vikings et le nom actuel apparut au temps de la Rus' de Kiev.
SclaveniThe Sclaveni (in Latin) or (various forms in Greek) were early Slavic tribes that raided, invaded and settled the Balkans in the Early Middle Ages and eventually became the progenitors of modern South Slavs. They were mentioned by early Byzantine chroniclers as barbarians having appeared at the Byzantine borders along with the Antes (East Slavs), another Slavic group. The Sclaveni were differentiated from the Antes and Wends (West Slavs); however, they were described as kin.
