Ulichs

{{Short description|Tribe of Early East Slavs}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2006}} thumb|200px|European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th century. The '''Uliches''' or '''Ugliches''' ({{langx|ro|Ulici}} or {{lang|ro|Uglici}}; {{langx|ru|Уличи}} or {{lang|ru|Угличи}}, {{Transliteration|ru|Ulichi}} or {{Transliteration|ru|Uglichi}}; {{langx|uk|Уличі}} {{lang|uk|Угличі}}, {{Transliteration|uk|Ulychi}} or {{Transliteration|uk|Uhlychi}}) were a tribe of Early East Slavs who, between the eighth and the tenth centuries, inhabited (along with the Tivertsi) Bessarabia, and the territories along the Lower Dnieper, Bug River and the Black Sea littoral.

==Ethnonym== The tribal name comes{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} from a location called Oglos or Onglos by the Byzantine chroniclers Theophanes the Confessor and Nikephoros I of Constantinople, possibly to be identified with Peuce Island. The word may derive from Slavic ''âgul'' 'corner', or, according to Steven Runciman, from ''agul'' 'enclosure'.

==History== They were mentioned as ''Unlizi'' by the Bavarian Geographer, described as "populus multus" and having 418 gords-settlements.<ref name="Koncha">{{cite journal |last=Koncha |first=S. |title=Bavarian Geographer On Slavic Tribes From Ukraine |url=http://ukrbulletin.univ.kiev.ua/Visnyk-16-en/Koncha.pdf |journal=Ukrainian Studies |year=2012 |volume=12 |publisher=Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |pages=15–21}}</ref> The Uliches long struggled against the Kievan princes Oleg, Igor and Sviatoslav Igorevich for their independence, until a Kievan commander Sveneld captured their capital, Peresechen (near Orhei, in present-day Moldova), around 940. In the mid-10th century the Ulich lands paid tribute to Sveneld. The Uliches were last mentioned in the 970s.

==See also== *Hutsuls *List of Medieval Slavic tribes

== References == {{Reflist}} * {{cite book |last = Runciman |first = Steven |author-link = Steven Runciman |title = A history of the First Bulgarian Empire |url = http://www.promacedonia.org/en/sr/index.html |chapter-url = http://www.promacedonia.org/en/sr/sr_3_1.htm |chapter = Emperor of the Bulgars and the Romans |publisher = George Bell & Sons |location = London |oclc = 832687 |year = 1930 }} {{Slavic ethnic groups (VII-XII century)}}

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