Slavic Vendian village in Germany, preserved to this day. The main feature is the circular structure ("circular villages")
Slavic peoples in the 8th and 9th centuries occupied vast territories, extending southward to the Byzantine Empire and westward to the kingdom of the Franks.
All of Pomerania and most of modern Germany were inhabited by Polabian Slavs. They were so called because they lived on the Elbe River, which the Slavs called Labe, and were engaged in agriculture/trade along the rivers.
It was the Polabian Slavs who founded the city of Berlin. All cities with the ending -in, -ov, -it, -au are Slavic names. Berlin, Schwerin, Witzin, Lubow, Teterow, Lutow, Kemnitz, Dobranitz, Lubenau, and Torgau are all Slavic names.
