title: The Orient
abstract: The Orient According to the Bavarian Geographer, their land covered 30 civitates (c astellanies/strongholds).In 932, it was forced by the Germans to pay tribute, and after the bishopric of Meissen was founded (in 986), it was gradually absorbed into the ecclesiastical and administrative structures of the empire.The rest of Europe knew about it in the 11 th c.: in 1002 it was occupied by the Polish Duke Bolesław Chrobry in connection with a dowry dispute, and he remained in control of it during 1