BALTS PEOPLE
Balts people has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN PEOPLE category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.
The international name for Balts people is a german term first used in acient time to indicate the populations settled on the Baltic sea who spoke the same Baltic languages, a banch of the indoeuropeans family, spreaded in the area of lower Vistula river and upper Daugava up to the Pripjat region. Balts and Slavs came together in Europe during the Iron age: they were divided in several tribes of Lithuanians (Samogitians and Aukštaitija), Latgalians, Borussians (Yotvingians and Curonians) and Livonian, all practising the ancient paganesm cult of vidilism. The Balts are a part of the indoeuropean peoples coming from Scythya and sharing the "Kurgan" culture as Russians and Magyars: their phenotype mixed with the Germans dna is characterized by light hair, brown/green eyes and light skin, similar to the tipical Caucasian anthropologic human group spreaded all around Europe.
During the Middle age the Balts were annexed to the Reich Empire under the Principality of the Teutonic Knights that built their capital in Königsberg (actual Kalinigrad) and fought for centuries against Polands and Swedens to defend their possession until 1410 AD. Then part of the Balts tribes joined into the Confederation of Livonia that became part of the Lithuanian Great-Duchy from middle XVI century AD, under the dinasty of Jagelloni, following its history until 1795 AD when all the Baltic region was annexed to Russian Zarade. The definitive indipendence of Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia happened in 1919 AD, even if they have been under the dominion of Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991 AD. The Borussians remained independent since XVI century AD in the Prussy Duchy, that exapnded western and entered the political history of Germany until the end of Second World War when that region became part of Poland.
The Balts people founded the cities of Vilnius, Riga and Tallin, within the historical regions of Courland, Pomerania, Prussia and Livonia, but they spreaded all around in Belarus, Ukraine and northern-western Russia during the Lithuania-Poland Krone dominion in Renaissance epoch.
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