Znetalici (Czech: Snětaliči) was a Slavic tribe mentioned by the 9th-century Bavarian Geographer. They are mentioned as inhabiting 74 civitates (settlements).[1]

While some scholars put them somewhere in Russia,[2] between the Carpathians and the Danube,[2][3] or in Kiev.[4] the majority located them in Bohemia and near Lusatia.[2][3][5] They are etymologically related to toponym Netolice in Bohemia, and Serbo-Lusatian tribe of Neletici or Netelici. Mikołaj Rudnicki considered it of patronymic origin with suffix *-ici, deriving it from *Snetal ("big trunk"), which has survived as surnames Snětal, Snětalová in the Czech Republic and Śniatała in Poland.[6]

References

  1. ^ ČSAV 1956, p. 3.
  2. ^ a b c Łowmiański 1986, p. 171.
  3. ^ a b ČSAV 1956, p. 35.
  4. ^ Ceskoslovenska spolecnost zemepisna. sbornik. journal. Vol. 67–68. 1962. p. 128.
  5. ^ Československá společnost zeměpisná (1961). Sbornik Československé společnosti zeměpisné. Nákl. Československé společnosti zeměpisné.
  6. ^ Łuczyński, Michal (2017). ""Geograf Bawarski" — nowe odczytania" ["Bavarian Geographer" — New readings]. Polonica (in Polish). XXXVII (37): 76. doi:10.17651/POLON.37.9. Retrieved 5 August 2020.

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