Yotvingians
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Yotvingians, also called Sudovians, Jatvians, or Jatvingians, were a Western Baltic people who were closely tied to the Old Prussians. The linguist Petras Būtėnas once asserted that they were closest
A kurgan in the area of Suwałki
A kurgan in the area of Suwałki
A kurgan in the area of Jatwieź Duża
12th and 13th-century Yotvingian jewellery found in the Suwalki region
Prussian uprisings
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The Prussian uprisings were two major and three smaller uprisings by the Old Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against the Teutonic Knights that took place in the 13th century during the Prussian C
Yotvingians
…of Ukraine, and the Podlachia and Chełm regions of Poland were a part of the Yotvingian ethnic group. Komantas of Sudovia led the Yotvingians in the Prussian uprisings. Sudovian language…
Ruins of the Teutonic castle in Rehden (today Radzyń Chełmiński Castle). It was one of five castles not captured by the Prussians.
Statue for Swantopolk II of Pomerania in a park in Oliwa
Pope Urban IV (1261–1264) was especially supportive of the Teutonic cause in Prussia. He served as a papal prelate negotiating the Treaty of Christburg after the first Prussian uprising.
A non-contemporary illustration of Teutonic triumph in Prussia: a native Prussian man is crushed by the victorious Teutonic Knights (Christoph Hartknoch, 1684)