Slavic revolt of 983
Late 10th-century uprising of ethnic Slavs in the Holy Roman Empire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the Slavic revolt of 983, Polabian Slavs, Wends, Lutici and Obotrite tribes, that lived east of the Elbe River in modern north-east Germany overthrew an assumed Ottonian rule over the Slavic lands and rejected Christianization under Emperor Otto I.[1]