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{{Short description|Tribe of Early East Slavs}}
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[[File:East Slavic tribes peoples 8th 9th century.jpg|thumb|200px|European territory inhabited by East Slavic tribes in 8th and 9th century.]]
The '''Uliches''' or '''Ugliches''' ({{langx|ro|Ulici}} or {{lang|ro|Uglici}}; {{langx|ru|Уличи}} or {{lang|ru|Угличи}}, {{Transliteration|ru|Ulichi}} or {{Transliteration|ru|Uglichi}}; {{langx|uk|Уличі}} {{lang|uk|Угличі}}, {{Transliteration|uk|Ulychi}} or {{Transliteration|uk|Uhlychi}}) were a [[tribe]] of [[Early East Slavs]] who, between the eighth and the tenth centuries, inhabited (along with the [[Tivertsi]]) [[Bessarabia]], and the territories along the Lower [[Dnieper]], [[Southern Bug|Bug River]] and the [[Black Sea]] littoral.

==Ethnonym==
The tribal name comes{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} from a location called Oglos or Onglos by the [[Byzantine]] chroniclers [[Theophanes the Confessor]] and [[Nikephoros I of Constantinople]], possibly to be identified with [[Peuce Island]]. The word may derive from Slavic ''âgul'' 'corner', or, according to [[Steven Runciman]], from ''agul'' 'enclosure'.

==History==
They were mentioned as ''Unlizi'' by the [[Bavarian Geographer]], described as "populus multus" and having 418 [[Gord (archaeology)|gords]]-settlements.<ref name="Koncha">{{cite journal |last=Koncha |first=S. |title=Bavarian Geographer On Slavic Tribes From Ukraine |url=http://ukrbulletin.univ.kiev.ua/Visnyk-16-en/Koncha.pdf |journal=Ukrainian Studies |year=2012 |volume=12 |publisher=Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |pages=15–21}}</ref> The Uliches long struggled against the [[Kievan Rus'|Kievan]] [[prince]]s [[Oleg of Novgorod|Oleg]], [[Igor of Kiev|Igor]] and [[Sviatoslav I, Prince of Kiev|Sviatoslav Igorevich]] for their [[independence]], until a Kievan commander [[Sveneld]] captured their capital, [[Peresecina|Peresechen]] (near [[Orhei]], in present-day [[Moldova]]), around 940. In the mid-10th century the Ulich lands paid tribute to [[Sveneld]]. The Uliches were last mentioned in the 970s.

==See also==
*[[Hutsuls]]
*[[List of Medieval Slavic tribes]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}} 
* {{cite book
 |last = Runciman
 |first = Steven
 |author-link = Steven Runciman
 |title = A history of the First Bulgarian Empire
 |url = http://www.promacedonia.org/en/sr/index.html
 |chapter-url = http://www.promacedonia.org/en/sr/sr_3_1.htm
 |chapter = Emperor of the Bulgars and the Romans
 |publisher = [[George Bell & Sons]]
 |location = [[London]]
 |oclc = 832687
 |year = 1930
}}
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