The Corconti or Korkontoi were an ancient people, named as Germanic, in (2.10) of the ''Geography'' of

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(after 83 – 161 AD). They resided in the vicinity of Asciburgius Mountain near the Elbe river. Asciburgius was on the edge of the modern

Sudetes The Sudetes ( ; pl, Sudety; german: Sudeten; cs, Krkonošsko-jesenická subprovincie), commonly known as the Sudeten Mountains, is a geomorphological subprovince in Central Europe, shared by Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. They co ...

range ( Krkonoše in Czech, Karkonosze in Polish,

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in German). The name of the tribe may be related to the modern Slavic names for the terrain but that is uncertain. Ptolemy counted them among the peoples inhabiting

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. Their eastern neighbours were the Lugi Buri, who bordered the sources of the

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* '' Opera Corcontica'' - Scientific Journal from the Krkonoše National Park Early Germanic peoples

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