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This site is dedicated to developing and presenting research and teaching materials about the interactions between Slavs and Germans in the Central Middle Ages along the Elbe river and beyond. Our aim is to provide scholars, teachers and students with resources for comprehending this understudied and underappreciated zone of cross-cultural contact in North Central Europe.The project originated with the text that we call the Deeds of Wiprecht of Groitzsch (part of the Annals of Pegau), an invaluable twelfth-century source for this region. In our view, it comprises a number of independently authored, anonymous texts cut and pasted together to form a compilation into which later writers made a number of notations and insertions. The initial core of this website explains and demonstrates this visibly. From there, we continue to expand the contents--rather piecemeal, as our inclinations lead us. We intend to provide ever more texts in translation; to include assemblages of raw data concerning select individuals, institutions, locations, and themes relevant to the Elbian borderlands; to create a variety of maps; and to link the material here to on-line resources elsewhere.