A fact from Rani (tribe) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Rani people, a West Slavic tribe inhabiting the island of Rugia, maintained their native paganism, its ritual, temple, and priesthood, well into the twelfth century?
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Thompsons said Slavs further east and he mentioned Estonia. That's all I know. I will provide a page number Monday if necessary. Perhaps Thompson was sloppily calling all members of the Balto-Slavic linguistic group "Slavs"? Srnec03:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)Reply
Maybe modern members of those ethnic groups would "object" to being called Slavs or Germanics or whatever mainly because they aren't precisely Slavs or Germanics, but they wouldn't object to someone saying Slavs or Germanics lived near Estonians, Lithuanians etc. You have to remember the author is using the political areas as a common guidestone of something that existed centuries (maybe even millenia) earlier. To summarize, "Slavs further east" does not mean "Estonia", there are multiple Slavic cultures east of Wolgast, indeed, the Slavic homeland is east of Wolgast and Arkona. I have no idea why you are talking about Baltics when there are Polish, Belarus, Rus as established political areas, as well as multiple ancient Slavic cultures (ex Przeworsk, Zarubitnsy, Chernyakhov etc) east of Arkona. 99.236.221.124 (talk) 18:17, 31 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
