Yotvingians

E307681
Baltic people Western Baltic tribe extinct ethnic group

The Yotvingians were a now-extinct Baltic people who lived in the area of present-day northeastern Poland, southwestern Lithuania, and western Belarus, closely related culturally and linguistically to other Western Baltic tribes.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Yotvingians canonical 2
Sudovians-Yotvingians 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Baltic people ⓘ
Western Baltic tribe ⓘ
extinct ethnic group ⓘ
archaeologicalCulture Western Baltic barrow culture ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
country Belarus ⓘ
Lithuania ⓘ
Poland ⓘ
culturalPractice barrow cemeteries ⓘ
cremation burials ⓘ
pagan rituals ⓘ
culture Western Baltic culture ⓘ
disappearanceCause Christianization ⓘ
assimilation into neighboring peoples ⓘ
military conquest ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Baltic peoples ⓘ
ethnonymVariant Jatvingians ⓘ
Sudovians ⓘ
Yotvingians self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Sudovians-Yotvingians
fate assimilated ⓘ
extinct as a distinct people ⓘ
historicalSource Polish medieval documents ⓘ
Teutonic Order documents ⓘ
medieval chronicles ⓘ
language Yotvingian language ⓘ
languageFamily Baltic languages ⓘ
languageStatus extinct language ⓘ
linguisticBranch Western Baltic languages ⓘ
locatedIn northeastern Poland ⓘ
southwestern Lithuania ⓘ
Western Belarus ⓘ
surface form: western Belarus
neighbor Lithuanians ⓘ
Old Prussians ⓘ
Rusyns ⓘ
surface form: Ruthenians
opponent Grand Duchy of Lithuania ⓘ
Kingdom of Poland ⓘ
Teutonic Order ⓘ
partOf Baltic Sea region ⓘ
surface form: Baltic region
region Dainava ⓘ
Ostland ⓘ
surface form: Sudovia
relatedTo Curonians ⓘ
Latvians ⓘ
surface form: Latgalians

Lithuanians ⓘ
Old Prussians ⓘ
religion Baltic paganism ⓘ
subgroupOf Baltic peoples ⓘ
surface form: Western Balts
timePeriod Middle Ages ⓘ
early second millennium CE ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Prussians → relatedEthnicGroup → Yotvingians ⓘ
Prussians → relatedEthnicGroup → Yotvingians ⓘ
Yotvingians → ethnonymVariant → Yotvingians self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sudovians-Yotvingians