Tag Archives: Prehistory
Old Prussians
Today there are two remaining Baltic nations- Latvians and Lithuanians. But in 13. century there was a third tribe living in present-day Kaliningrad oblast in Russia and Poland. They were Prussians- Pruzzen in German. Prussians encountered the German Crusader aggression … Continue reading
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Early Latvian statehood and civil order before the Crusades
There was and there is right now a discussion going on about the question of early Latvian statehood’s. The nationalists insist that there were real Latvian kingdoms with kings and castles. The skeptics see this as much as fantasy and … Continue reading
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The Latvian Prehistoric neighbors – early Lithuanians and Estonians
It would be unwise to exclude Latvian Baltic neighbors Lithuanians and Estonians from aspects of Latvian history because both three nations share much in common in the basis of Baltic history. Lets take a brief survey about Prehistoric aspects in … Continue reading
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The Latvian Mythology
Christianity only came to Latvia at 11. century but was enforced completely by crusaders at 13. century. So Latvians was one of the last people in Europe to convert to Christianity. Even when Christianity was official religion in Latvia, the … Continue reading
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The disappearing nation of Livonians
The four early Latvian tribes the Curonians, Semigallians, Selonians and Latgalians in the next hundred years of foreign rule slowly turned in to one Latvian nation. There is of course an differences between Latvians which are inherited from the old … Continue reading
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