Name
The name is derived from the most important Polish tribe - the Polans. Their name, on the other hand, derives from the word pole - field. It was used also for the eastern Polans that lived in the region of the Dnieper River. Some of the Polans began to surface further west and settled in what was later known as Greater Poland, while the rest remained in the east and later on became part of the Kievan Rus.
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