What does Poland mean?

The word poland in early Germanic language refers to barren/wild/uncultivated land. Poland and its eastern European countries developed quite late and badly, and failed to form a powerful kingdom in the early Middle Ages. For the Frankish Empire at that time and the later Holy Roman Empire, there were enough people on these lands, but there were not enough farmland, forests, snowfields and pagans everywhere, and they were plundered by princes in the north and east all the year round, which was simply worthless land (Europe before the early Middle Ages was still in the Little Ice Age, with a general shortage of population and few immigrants in the past). )

Sclav, the main ethnic group in Poland, refers to slaves in early Germanic language, because the eastern governors of the Frankish Empire and later the Holy Roman Empire often went deep into these wild places to plunder local people and sold them as slaves.