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Revision as of 09:28, 5 October 2006 by Gugutis (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The term Galindians may be applied to two distinct tribes of the ancient and medieval Balts. Their name is thought to derive from the Baltic word galas ("the end"), alluding to the fact that they settled farther west and farther east than any other Baltic tribes.
Western Galindians (*Galindai, Galindoi, Galindae)
The Western Galindians (Old Prussian: Galindai) is a hypothetical ancient West Baltic tribe, which lived in Galindia (today Masuria) and today's Northern Masovia. Ptolemy was the first to mention them as Galindoi in the 2nd century AD. Between the 8/9th and 16th/17th centuries the name continued to be applied to an Old Prussian clan of the Galindai.
Eastern Galindians (*Galindai, Golyad')
The Eastern Galindians is an extinct East Baltic tribe, which in the 4-8th centuries (until the Early East Slavs invaded the upper Oka River basin in the beginning of 8th century) lived in all the Kaluga Oblast and a part of Moskva Oblast, and in the 9/10-15/16th centuries – only in the basin of the Protva River, near the modern Russian towns of Mozhaysk, Vereya, and Borovsk. The Ruthenian chronicles first mention them as Golyad' in 1058. Yury Dolgoruky arranged a campaign against them in 1147, the year he founded Moscow in the land of the Eastern Galindians. After that, the Eastern Galindians are not mentioned in chronicles, but it's likely that they were not completely assimilated by Russians until the 15th or 16th century.
See also
- Prussians and Yotvingians - other extinct West- and East-Baltic peoples