You Pan-Slavs are funny
A quote by the famous German historian Adam von Bremen describing the land between Elbe and Oder in 1075:
Sclavania igitur, amplissima Germaniae provintia, viribus, frugibus et armis opulentissima a Vinulis incolitur, qui olim dicti sunt Vandali. ~ Adam von Bremen, 1075 (Adam II, 21)
Sclavania then, the richest province of Germania, rich in men, crops and weapons, which is controlled by the Vinuli, formerly called the Vandals. ~ Adam von Bremen, 1075 (Adam II, 21)
The reason for the migration of the Germanic tribes was
overpopulation, in other words: the
overspill left the original settling places while the rest stayed. Why should they leave completely? Even a large ammount of Ostrogoths stayed at the settlements near the Black Sea coast despite the general emigration to Byzanz and Italy and the Hunnish subjugation. The Crimerian Goths where still existant in the 16th century. And if the soil became unfertile, why should Slavs settle in these regions in the first place?
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Originally Posted by Awar
A barbarian tribe is not statehood like today, it isn't impossible that several tribes of totally different origin exist on the same teritory.
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Tell this the Poles
Anyway, at least for the period which is depicted on these maps, Tacitus mentions no other non-Germanic tribes.