Old Prussians, Baltic Prussians or simply Prussians were a Baltic people that inhabited the region of Prussia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea between the Vistula Lagoon to the west and the Curonian Lagoon to the east. As Balts, they spoke an Indo-European language of the Baltic branch now known as Old Prussian and worshipped pre-Christian deities. Their ethnonym was later adopted by predominantly Low German-speaking inhabitants of the region.
Political and tribal fragmentation of the 12th-century Old Prussians
Fragment of the Pomesanian statute book of 1340. The earliest attested document of the customary law of the Balts.
An engraving of a Prussian warrior with a club, Christoph Hartknoch's 1684 book "Old and New Prussia" (Alt- und Neues Preussen).
Prussian Hag – Old Prussian kurgan stelae
Prussia is a historical region in Central Europe on the south-eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, that ranges from the Vistula delta in the west to the end of the Curonian Spit in the east and extends inland as far as Masuria, divided between Poland, Russia and Lithuania.
Image: Кёнигсбергский собор
Image: Zamek Olsztyn (2)
Image: Zamek w Malborku 258
Image: Quite summer evening in the port city Klaipeda
