Polans (also Polanes, Polish Polanie) were a Slavic tribe inhabitating the shores of the Warta river in the 8th century. In the late 9th century the Polanie managed to subdue most of the Slavic tribes between the Odra and Western Bug rivers and between the Carpathians and the Baltic sea. By the 10th century they managed to also integrate the lands of Masovia, Kujawy and Great Poland. The main centres of their state were Gniezno, Poznań and Ostrów Lednicki .
The tribal union led by the Piast dynasty soon turned into what is now Poland.
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