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[[image:Lake de Oberuckersee Burgwallinsel.JPG|thumb|250px|right|''Burgwallinsel'', a former Ukrian [[burgh]] on an isle in Lake [[Oberuckersee]]]]

The '''Ukrani''' or '''Ukrians'''<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/95/18753.html William R. Shepherd] // «[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/central_europe_919_1125.jpg The Historical Atlas] (Central Europe, 919-1125)» [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_shepherd_1923.html by William R. Shepherd], 1923 {{in lang|en}}</ref> ({{langx|de|Ukranen, Ukrer, Vukraner}}, {{langx|pl|Wkrzanie}}) were a [[West Slavs|West Slavic]] [[Polabian Slavs|Polabian tribe]] in the [[Uckermark]] (''terra U(c)kera'', ''Uckerland'') from the 6th&ndash;12th centuries.<ref name=Materna>Ingo Materna. ''Brandenburgische Geschichte''. Akademie Verlag. [[Berlin]]. 1995, p. 29</ref> Their settlement area was centered on the lakes [[Oberuckersee]] and [[Unteruckersee]] at the spring of the [[Uecker]] River. In this region, [[burgh]]s with a proto-town [[suburbium]] were set up at ''Drense'' and on an isle in Lake Oberuckersee (near modern [[Prenzlau]]).

In 954, [[Margrave]] [[Gero]] of the [[Saxon Eastern March]] (the [[marca Geronis]]), aided by [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto I]]'s son-in-law, [[Conrad, Duke of Lorraine|Conrad of Lorraine]], launched a successful campaign to subdue the Ukrians, who had come within reach of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]'s [[Northern March]] after the 929 [[Battle of Lenzen]]. After the 983 revolt of the [[Obodrites]] and [[Lutici]], the area became independent again, yet remained under permanent military pressure, especially from [[Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385)|Poland]] and the Holy Roman Empire.

==See also==
*[[Uckermark]]
*[[Ukranenland]]
*[[Pomerania during the Early Middle Ages]]
*[[List of medieval Slavic tribes]]
*[[Brandenburg]]
*[[Veleti]]
*[[Prissani]]

==References==
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{{Pomeranian history|dem}}
{{Slavic ethnic groups (VII-XII century)}}

[[Category:Polabian Slavs]]
[[Category:History of Brandenburg]]
[[Category:Lechites]]
[[Category:History of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]]
[[Category:Uckermark (district)]]