What the records say
- When
- 9 Sep 929
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 53.09° N, 11.47° E
- Description
- 929 battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Lenzen
Capture of a Slavic fortress by the Kingdom of Germany in 929
The Battle of Lenzen was a land battle between a Saxon army of the Kingdom of Germany and the armies of the Slavic Redarii and Linones peoples, that took place on 4 September 929 near the fortified Linones stronghold of Lenzen in Brandenburg, Germany. The Saxon army, commanded by the Saxon magnate Bernhard, destroyed a Slavic Redarii army.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Lenzen: Slavic forces (the Redarii and the Obotrites) are defeated by a Saxon army near the fortified stronghold of Lenzen (modern Germany)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sachsen unter den gleichberechtigten Oberbefehlshabern Bernhard und den Grafen Thietmar besiegen in der Schlacht bei Lenzen ein slawisches Heer vom Stamm der…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “сражение при Лучине во время борьбы между франками и славянами в районе славянской крепости Лучин, расположенной на правом берегу Эльбы”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page