Integrated in the Obodrite state during the following decades, the Kessinians lost their discreteness, and were assimilated by German settlers during the medieval Ostsiedlung, who turned the Obodrites'state's successor, the Duchy of Mecklenburg, into a German region during the 12th century.
Integrated in the Obodrite state during the following decades, the Kessinians lost their discreteness. Integrated in the Obodrite state during the following decades, the Kessinians were assimilated by German settlers during the medieval Ostsiedlung. The medieval Ostsiedlung turned the Obodrites'state's successor into a German region during the 12th century. The Obodrites'state's successor were the Duchy of Mecklenburg.