Galinden
Galindia was a Gau of the Prussians in East Prussia , now in the area of the Republic of Poland . It lay southeast of Pogesania , east of Sassen (the border ran roughly on the Omulef River ), west of Sudauen and north of Polish Mazovia (the border ran roughly on the Narew River ).
etymology
The name means "who live at the end" and is to be lit . gãlas , Latvian gals "end". The landscape is shaped by the Masurian Lake District .
history
The tribe of the Galindians has already been mentioned by ancient authors, for example by Ptolemy in his Geographike Hyphegesis with the appropriate geographical positioning of their settlement area. In 1231 this Gau Galinden was first mentioned as Galindo . Galinden was conquered from Kreuzburg relatively late . Because of the sometimes very difficult to access landscape, the areas already occupied by the knights had to be given up and later - in 1285 and 1348 Lötzen , 1335 and 1396 Angerburg , 1345 Johannisburg and finally 1360 Ortelsburg - conquered again. A large part of the Galindians is said to have moved away with the early Goths at the end of the 2nd century . Masovian families peacefully settled in the almost deserted rooms . Remnants of this tribe went to Masuria along with other Prussian tribes, German settlers and later Polish immigrants .
Legend
According to a legend invented by the very controversial historian Simon Grunau , it was Galindo, the eighth son of King Widowuto , who received the land from Kaboso to the borders of the Masau. He established a fortress Galindo, which was later called Galinderberg. His people later became very powerful and waged many wars with the Masurians.
See also
literature
- Georg Gerullis: The old Prussian place names . Berlin / Leipzig 1922.
- Endre Bojtár: Foreword to the Past. A Cultural History of the Baltic People . Budapest / New York 1999. ISBN 9789639116429 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Georg Gerullis: The old Prussian place names . Berlin / Leipzig 1922, p. 35.
- ↑ See A. Spekke: The Ancient Amber Routes and the Geographical Discovery of the Eastern Baltic . English edition, Stockholm 1957.
