Due to this fact they are usually treated as part of the Polish tribes.

But, there is little record of Christian influence on Polish tribes before the 960s.

Concerning the early Polish tribes, geography contributed to long-standing traditions.

Polans united other Polish tribes and created Poland.

The Polish tribes were internalized and organized around a unifying religious cult, governed by the wiec, an assembly of free tribesmen.

A number of West Slavic Polish tribes formed small states, beginning in the 8th century, some of which later coalesced into larger states.

They were later classified as part of West Slavic Polish tribes - the Silesian tribes.

The most important Polish tribes are Polans, Masovians, Vistulans, Silesians and Pomeranians.

The Polish tribes did however leave remnants of more imposing structures-fortified settlements and other reinforced enclosures of the gord (Polish "gród") type.

Further east, in the forests of the middle course of the Vistula to the north of Pilica, lived the most savage of the Polish tribes, the Mazurs.

Silesian tribes - These are usually treated as part of Polish tribes although two tribes among them are sometimes considered as Czech (Moravian) tribes.

The prior social structure was one of Polish tribes united into the historic Polish nation under a state ruled by the Piast dynasty, this dynasty appearing circa 850 A.D.

Eventually, in the Middle Ages, the area came to be dominated by Slavic tribes and finally became home to a number of West Slavic Polish tribes that formed small states in the region, beginning in the 8th century.

Other places of pagan cult and ritual by Slavs and Scandinavians are known from prior analysis of early inhabitation of Eastern Europe, however, these specific areas inhabited by early Polish tribes were not studied until recently.

Polish tribes - a term used sometimes to describe the tribes of West Slavs that lived in the territories that became Polish from around the mid-7th century to the creation of Polish state by the Piast dynasty.

However, the wall most likely served a solely defensive purpose, most likely as a bulwark against raiding parties of the neighboring Polabian Slavs as none of the Polish tribes yet shared direct borders with Germanic states at the time.

Genetic analysis indicates that there has been an unbroken genetic continuity of the inhabitants over the last 3,500 years, which would suggest that Polish tribes lived here for a long time and successfully defended against distant invaders, such as Suebi and Burgundians.

To the north of the Netze River between the Oder and the Baltic, lived the northernmost of the Polish tribes known as Pomorzanie (in the Polish: people living by the sea); hence the name of the province Pomorze.