Znetalici ( cz, Snětaliči) was a Slavic tribe mentioned by the 9th-century

Bavarian Geographer The epithet "Bavarian Geographer" ( la, Geographus Bavarus) is the conventional name for the anonymous author of a short Latin medieval text containing a list of the tribes in Central- Eastern Europe, headed (). The name "Bavarian Geographer" was ...

. They are mentioned as inhabiting 74 ''civitates'' (settlements). While some scholars put them somewhere in Russia, between the

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and the

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, or in Kiev. the majority located them in Bohemia and near

Lusatia Lusatia (german: Lausitz, pl, Łużyce, hsb, Łužica, dsb, Łužyca, cs, Lužice, la, Lusatia, rarely also referred to as Sorbia) is a historical region in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland. Lusatia stretches from the Bóbr ...

. They are etymologically related to toponym Netolice in Bohemia, and Serbo-Lusatian tribe of ''Neletici'' or ''Netelici''. Mikołaj Rudnicki considered it of patronymic origin with suffix ''*-ici'', deriving it from ''*Snetal'' ("big trunk"), which has survived as surnames Snětal, Snětalová in the Czech Republic and Śniatała in Poland.

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