Sprevane

The Sprevane or Sprevani (German: Sprewanen; Slavonic: Sprevjane) were a Slavic tribe who lived around the river Spree, where Berlin is now, in the Brandenburg area of eastern Germany.

Archaeological finds point to them coming to the area in the 8th century, and by 825 they started to build a settlement in today's Köpenick, a district of Berlin.

[2] Their name is from Sprevja (the local Slavonic form of the river name Spree, meaning "to the right side") plus the Slavonic ethnic suffix -an (= the one living in that area) and "-e" meaning plural.

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