With the establishment of the new territorial unit, expansion to the East began and the Wagrians were finally defeated in 1138.

The Wagri, Wagiri, or Wagrians were a tribe of Polabian Slavs inhabiting Wagria, or eastern Holstein in northern Germany, from the ninth to twelfth centuries.

Holstein was Christianised, many of the Wagrians were killed and the land was inhabited by settlers from Westphalia, Friesland and Holland.

The main tribes of the Obotritic confederation were the Obotrites proper ( Wismar Bay to the Schweriner See ); the Wagrians ( eastern Holstein ); the Warnabi ( Warnower ) ( the upper Warnow and Mildenitz ); and the Polabians proper ( between the Trave and the Elbe ).

Oldenburg was the chief town of the Wagrians, one of the Slavic peoples that migrated as far west as the river Elbe in or after the 6th century ( see Völkerwanderung ), also known as Wends and Obotrites.

After the Migration Period of the Early Middle Ages, Holstein was a borderland between Nordalbingia ( part of Old Saxony ) at the coast of North Sea, the land of the Slavic Wagrians belonging to the Obotrites at the coast of the Baltic Sea and the land of the Danes in Jutland.

The rest of Holstein was given to Obotrites, namely the Wagrians, and their Saxon population was deported to various areas of the empire.

Taking into account both archeological findings and Roman sources, however, one could conclude that the Jutes inhabited both the Kongeå region and the more northern part of the peninsula, while the Angles lived approximately where the towns Haithabu and Schleswig later would emerge ( originally centered in the southeast of Schleswig in Angeln ), the Saxons ( earlier known apparently as the Reudingi ) originally centered in Western Holstein ( known historically as " Northalbingia ") and Slavic Wagrians, part of the Obodrites ( Abodrites ) in Eastern Holstein.

This evening, they were pushed in from the breakfast room, with odds and ends of dessert distributed over them.

They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.

She would not stop to read them in American Express, as many were doing, sitting on benches or leaning against the walls, but pushed her way out into the street.

After this, strong southern winds pushed the ice further into the north, and much of the waters north of Gotland were again free of ice, which had then packed against the shores of southern Finland.

During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.

To the consternation of the French, the Gens d ' Armes were pushed back in terrible confusion, pursued well beyond the Maulweyer stream that flows through Blenheim.

Business leaders were more concerned about access to Logan Airport, and pushed instead for a third harbor tunnel.

Sixty years ago most archaeologists believed that brochs, usually regarded as castles, were built by immigrants who had been displaced and pushed northward, first by the intrusions of Belgic tribes into what is now south-east England towards the end of the second century BC and later by the Roman invasion of southern Britain from AD 43 onwards.

Costa Rican forces followed the filibusters into Rivas, Nicaragua, where in a final battle, William Walker and his forces were finally pushed back.

The production of large quantities of magma, variously attributed to mantle plumes or to extensional tectonics, further pushed sea levels up, so that large areas of the continental crust were covered with shallow seas.

Rosen assumed the capacity of interim CEO and began " cleaning house ", as shortly afterward many of Pfeiffer's top executives resigned or were pushed out, including John Rando, Earl Mason, and John Rose.

Biafra apparently pushed this issue in court, although there was no hard evidence and the jurors were apparently unconcerned with corporate use of independently produced political music.

Additionally, many of the performers, producers, directors and other artists of pre-Soviet Russia, had fled the country or were moving ahead of the Red Army forces as they pushed further and further south into what remained of the Russian Empire.

The latter in particular pushed back the boundaries of fanzine production, producing glossy, professionally written and printed publications at a time ( 1983 – 86 ) when most fanzines were produced via photocopier and letraset.

While — with help from mobile infantry and artillery columns from 7th Armoured Division — they pushed back the Axis probe with ease, they were prevented from advancing north to protect the New Zealand flank.

Peasants were being pushed off their farms by rich landowners.

Then an Athenian militia, led by the historian Dexippus, pushed the invaders to the north where they were intercepted by the Roman army under Gallienus.

The Visigoths, for example, were converted to Arian Christianity around 360, even before they were pushed into imperial territory by the expansion of the Huns.

As the Germans were pushed back from Moscow in December 1941, signalling that the invasion of the Soviet Union had failed, Hitler and other Nazi officials realised that mass deportations to the east would no longer be possible.

By 54 CE the border had been pushed back to the Severn and the Trent, and campaigns were underway to subjugate Northern England and Wales.

The emperor's forces pushed north as far as the River Tay, but little appears to have been achieved by the invasion, as peace treaties were signed with the Caledonians.

The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced Lenin and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic objective of linking up with the German and other European revolution-minded comrades ( Lenin's hope of generating support for the Red Army in Poland had already failed to materialize ).

He argued that capitalism and industrialization pushed laborers so hard that they began to see themselves as extensions of the objects they were producing.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

The trees were crowded so closely together that their branches overlapped, virtually shutting out the sun completely.

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

You were right '', Russ exclaimed, tearing the loose bills out of Carmer's hat.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Finally, however, the arrangements were made and we drove out into the bush in a Land Rover.

Crowds press along the terraces, down the steps, in and out of the arcades, massing against it as though it were a fortress under siege.

others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

After we got a script and the spots for the songs were blocked out, we'd get together for an hour or so every day.

Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

But in the confused atmosphere of frontier politics, alliances were as quickly broken as they were formed, and as Pike came to favor with the governor of the Territory, the governor fell out of favor with the President of the United States.

Roger Williams had recently been thrown out, and Anne Hutchinson and her Antinomians were slugging it out with the powers-that-be.