Christianization of Prussia

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The Christianization of Prussia was the medieval process by which the pagan Old Prussian tribes were conquered and converted to Christianity, primarily through crusades and colonization in the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Label Occurrences
Christianization of Prussia canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christianization
historical process
religious conversion campaign
appliesTo Old Prussians
surface form: Old Prussian tribes
describedBySource Teutonic Order documents
medieval chronicles
papal bulls
endTime 14th century
followedBy Germanization of Prussia
Reformation in Prussia
hasCause expansion of Latin Christendom
military conquest
missionary activity
papal crusading policy
hasEffect German colonization of Prussia
conversion of Old Prussian elites
decline of Old Prussian language
destruction of many pagan sacred sites
Teutonic Order state
surface form: establishment of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order

feudalization of Prussian society
integration of Prussia into Latin Christian Europe
hasInfluenceOn formation of Prussian identity
medieval Baltic politics
spread of Western Christianity in the Baltic
hasLocation Baltic Sea region
surface form: Baltic region

Prussia
southern coast of the Baltic Sea
hasParticipant Duchy of Masovia
Holy Roman Empire
Kingdom of Poland
Prussian nobility
surface form: Old Prussian nobility

Teutonic Order
surface form: Teutonic Knights

Teutonic Order
papacy
mainSubject Old Prussians
opposedBy Old Prussian resistance
pagan uprisings in Prussia
partOf Northern Crusades
religionAfter Christianity
religionBefore Old Prussian paganism
startTime 13th century
usedMethod baptism
church building
colonization
crusade
forced conversion
missionary preaching

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Teutonic Order militaryRole Christianization of Prussia
Teutonic Order state purpose Christianization of Prussia