Dulebi, Duleby, Dudlebi
Formed from:
Considered to be a Slavic tribe, although its origins were never established. According to one of the Polish
historians, H. Paszkiewicz, the name Duleby evolved as a result of the Gothic invasion at the end of the 3rd
century and that a Slavic tribe became subjugated to Gotlieb. Consequently, the Slavic group was recognized as
the people of Dietlieb, Dietleby, and finally Duleby. It is a feasible explanation and therefore may be factual.
They were one of the tribal unions of Early East Slavs between the 6th (still questionable) and the 10th centuries.
Original Record of: 376 AD
Migrations:
in 561 AD As a result of this conflict, a great number of Dulebians were taken captive and forced to resettle in the
valley of Tissa River (present-day Hungary), many also fled the Avars to Czeckoslovakia and some even to
Smolensk. Kievian rule was harsh and uncompromising, and may explain the vanishing of the Dulebians from that
region. Their only signs left were in the geographical nomenclature, which was still in evidence until World War
Two. It stretched in line from Kovel in the north (Vohlynia) to the town of Stryj in the south (the sub-Carpathian
region).
It appears that the Dulebi tribal union disintegrated in the 10th century, assimilated with the Volhynians and
Buzhans and became part of the Kievan Rus'.
Cities or towns:
Halych, L’vov, Kiev Bashtu - official Bulgarian name of the city of Kiev, founded in the 620 AD under an order of
the Kan Kurbat (Kubrat). Besides, the Bulgars called the city "Kyi" (from that comes its Slavic name "Kiev"), and
its citadel "Shambat"
Recorded names:
Male: Danylo, Volodomyrko, Lev
Neighbors
9th Century:
This tribe was found to the South on the upper Moldau basin. Other tribes in the area Litomierzycy, Zilicanie,
Siedlicanie.
Sources for Research:
Primary Chronicle
Vernadsky, George (1973).
Russian Civilization in the Kievan Period
Franklin, Simon and Shepard, Jonathon, The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200
The Early Slavs P.M. Barford
Interesting Links:
History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulebes