YOTVINGIANS

'Yotvingians' (; , ) were a Baltic people with close cultural ties to the Lithuanians and Prussians. The Yotvingian language (sometimes called ''Sudovian'') was a Western Baltic language nearest to Prussian, but with small variations. Yotvingians lived in the area of Sudovia and Dainava; south west from the upper Neman, between Marijampolė, Merkinė (Lithuania), Slonim, Kobrin (Belarus), Białystok, and Ełk (Poland); today this area corresponds mostly to the northeast of Poland with Białystok and Suwałki and a part of Hrodna Province of Belarus. Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD called the people ''Sudinoi''. From the 13th century, Yotvingians began raiding adjacent areas of Masovia, Lublin and Volhynia, after Konrad I of Masovia and Daniel of Halych had invaded them. In the 1280s the Northern Yotvingians were partly conquered and dispersed by the Teutonic Knights; some Yotvingians then took refuge in Lithuania. Many Sudovians came to live nearer Regiomontium in the area called the ''Sudovian corner'', while battles were fought in the wilderness area of Sudovia between Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Knights.

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★ English-Sudovian (Yotvingian) dictionary

★ Map showing "Jadzvings" (Yotvingians) on the eastern edge of Poland "at the time of the death of Boleslav the Wrymouthed 1138."

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★ Sudovians

★ Sudovian language