List of Baltic tribes
The Baltic tribes traditionally in Eastern and Western Balts divided, but there are also finer subdivisions, after which cures when northern Baltic and the Sudovians with Galindern to Südbalten be expected. The earliest mentions of Baltic tribes date to the 7th / 8th centuries. Century. The Aestians named in ancient literature in AD 98 are also counted among the Balts, although today's Estonians belong to the Finno-Ugric peoples. Since the arrival of the neighboring Polans (around 1000) and their repeated conquest attacks on the Prussians, the Kulmerland , which belongs to Prussia , was partly mixed with Masovian or Polish inhabitants after 1200 .
East Baltic
- Golyad
- Cures
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Latvians
- Latgale
- Zemgals
- Selonians (Selonians, Selenium)
- Diet cures
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Lithuanians
- Shamaites (Samogitians)
- Aukschtaiten (Auxtoten)
West Baltic
Other
Individual evidence
See also
literature
- Marija Gimbutas : The Balts. History of a people in the Baltic Sea region. Herbig, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7766-1266-5 .
- Wilhelm Mannhardt: Letto-Prussian doctrine of gods. Latvian Literary Society, Riga 1936. Reprint Harro v. Hirschheydt, Hannover-Döhren 1971.
- Wolfgang P. Schmid : Baltic languages and peoples. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1976, ISBN 3-11-006740-4 , pp. 14-20.