The Smeldingi were a small group of Polabian Slavs living on the border of the Old Saxony in the 9th century, probably between the Elbe and the Havel. They were a sub-group of the Hevelli. Their name is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *smola ('resin') and is related to the ethnonym of the South Slavic Smolyani and the name of the East Slavic city of Smolensk.