The Great Slav Rising in 983 is an uprising of the Slavic Lutici and Obotrite people living to the east of the Elbe in modern northeast Germany.

They are revolting against their subjugation to the Kingdom of the Eastern Franks (also known as East Francia).After the defeat of Otto II in at the Battle of Stilo in 982, the pagan Slavs rebel against the Germans the following year; the Hevelli and Liutizi destroy the Bishoprics of Havelberg and Brandenburg.

Some Slavs advance across the Elbe into Saxon territory, but retreat when the Christian Duke of the Polans, Mieszko I, attacks them from the east.

The Holy Roman Empire retains only nominal control over the Slavic territories between the Elbe and the Oder.

Despite the efforts of Christian missionaries, most Polabian Slavs see Jesus as a "German god" and remain pagan.