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- noun Plural form of
Wend .
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Examples
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Just think, Arcona with its great camping place of the Wends, that is said still to be visible.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various
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Heinrich I and Otto I the northern Slavs, living in regions subsequently German, namely the Wends, including those living in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The Sorbs, also knows as Wends or Lusatian Serbs, are a Slavic people of some 60,000 who live in the German states of Saxony and Brandenburg.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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Rome, Iceland, Anglo-Saxon England, the lands of the Wends, even Vedic India all were organized according to this principle.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010
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Rome, Iceland, Anglo-Saxon England, the lands of the Wends, even Vedic India all were organized according to this principle.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010
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At the same time King Louis advanced with his army against the Wends, one of whose kings, Gestimus by name, was killed; the rest came to Louis and pledged him their fidelity, which, however, they broke as soon as he was gone.
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In the same year Louis sent an expedition from Saxony against the Wends across the Elbe.
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After this had taken place King Louis once more led a force against the Wends.
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It did so because it was directed against the Muslims not only in Palestine, but also in Portugal and Spain, and against the pagan Wends in what was to be Prussia and is now north-eastern Germany and Poland.
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It did so because it was directed against Muslims not only in Palestine, but also in Portugal and Spain, and against the pagan Wends in what was to be Prussia and is now north-eastern Germany and Poland.
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