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Curonians, the Glossary

The Curonians or Kurs (kurši; kuršiai) were a medieval Baltic tribe living on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 5th–16th centuries, in what are now western parts of Latvia and Lithuania.^[1]

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Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis; Adam von Bremen; before 1050 – 12 October 1081/1085) was a German medieval chronicler.

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Aigars

Aigars is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to.

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Ansgar

Ansgar (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as Anskar, Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks.

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Apuolė

Apuolė is a historic village in Skuodas district municipality, Lithuania.

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The Archbishopric of Riga (Archiepiscopatus Rigensis, Erzbisdom Riga) was an archbishopric in Medieval Livonia, a subject to the Holy See. Curonians and archbishopric of Riga are Gulf of Riga and medieval history of Latvia.

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Šilutė District Municipality

Šilutė District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania.

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Baltic Finnic peoples

The Baltic Finnic peoples, often simply referred to as the Finnic peoples, are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Finnic languages.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Balts

The Balts or Baltic peoples (baltai, balti) are a group of peoples inhabiting the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea who speak Baltic languages.

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Bandava

Bandava (in Latvian and Lithuanian; Bandowe) - and old Curonian land which existed in the territory of the Latvia during the late Iron Age until it was conquered and divided in 1253 by Bishopric of Courland and Livonian Order.

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Battle of Brávellir

The Battle of Brávellir or the Battle of Bråvalla was a legendary battle, said to have taken place c. 770, that is described in the sagas as taking place on the Brávellir between Sigurd Hring, king of Sweden and the Geats of Västergötland, and his uncle Harald Wartooth, king of Denmark and the Geats of Östergötland.

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Battle of Durbe

The Battle of Durbe (Durbes kauja, Durbės mūšis, Schlacht an der Durbe) was a medieval battle fought near Durbe, east of Liepāja, in present-day Latvia during the Livonian Crusade.

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Bornholm

Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Courland

Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia.

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Curonian Kings

Curonian Kings (Cursken konyngh; Kurische Könige; kuršu ķoniņi) are a Latvian cultural group, originally lesser vassals and free farmers that lived in seven villages between Goldingen (Kuldīga) and Hasenpoth (Aizpute) in Courland. Curonians and Curonian Kings are Social history of Latvia.

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Curonian language

The Curonian language (Kurisch; kuršu valoda; kuršių kalba), or Old Curonian, was a Baltic language spoken by the Curonians, a Baltic tribe who inhabited Courland (now western Latvia and northwestern Lithuania).

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Daugava

The Daugava (Daugova; Dźwina; Düna) or Western Dvina (translit; Заходняя Дзвіна; Väina; Väinäjoki) is a large river rising in the Valdai Hills of Russia that flows through Belarus and Latvia into the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea. Curonians and Daugava are Gulf of Riga.

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Daugavgrīva

Daugavgrīva (Dünamünde; Dyjament; Усть-Двинск or Ust`-Dvinsk) is a neighbourhood in North West Riga, Latvia on the left bank of the Daugava river.

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Egil's Saga

Egill's Saga or Egil's saga (Egils saga) is an Icelandic saga (family saga) on the lives of the clan of Egill Skallagrímsson (Anglicised as Egill Skallagrimsson), an Icelandic farmer, viking and skald.

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Egill Skallagrímsson

Egil Skallagrímsson (Egill Skallagrímsson; Modern Icelandic:; 904 995) was a Viking Age war poet, sorcerer, berserker, and farmer.

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Enn Tarvel

Enn Tarvel (until 1939 Enn Treiberg; July 31, 1932 – September 22, 2021) was an Estonian historian.

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Estonians

Estonians or Estonian people (eestlased) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who speak the Estonian language.

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Ethnogenesis

Ethnogenesis is the formation and development of an ethnic group.

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Gesta Danorum

("Deeds of the Danes") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 12th-century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally "the Grammarian").

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Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum

(Medieval Latin for "Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg") is a historical treatise written between 1073 and 1076 by Adam of Bremen, who made additions (scholia) to the text until his death (possibly 1081; before 1085).

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Gotland

Gotland (Gutland in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland, is Sweden's largest island.

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Grobiņa

Grobiņa (Grobin) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, eleven kilometers east of Liepāja.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.

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Klaipėda County

Klaipėda County (Klaipėdos apskritis) is one of ten counties in Lithuania, bordering Tauragė County to the southeast, Telšiai County to the northeast, Kurzeme in Latvia to the north, and Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia to the south.

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Klaipėda University

Klaipėda University (Klaipėdos universitetas or KU) is a university in the Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda.

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Kretinga

Kretinga (Kretynga) is a city in Klaipėda County, in north-western Lithuania.

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Kuldīga

Kuldīga (Goldingen) is a town in the Courland region of Latvia, in the western part of the country.

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Kursenieki

The Kursenieki (kursenieki, Kuren – 'Curonians', kuršininkai, kuršiai) are a nearly extinct Baltic ethnic group living along the Curonian Spit.

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Kvenland

Kvenland, known as Cwenland, Qwenland, Kænland, and similar terms in medieval sources, is an ancient name for an area in Fennoscandia and Scandinavia.

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Latgalians

Latgalians (Letti, Lethi, modern; variant translations also include Latgallians, Lettigalls or Lettigallians) were an ancient Baltic tribe. Curonians and Latgalians are historical Baltic peoples.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Latvians

Latvians (latvieši) are a Baltic ethnic group and nation native to Latvia and the immediate geographical region, the Baltics.

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Liepāja

Liepāja is a state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Lithuanians

Lithuanians (lietuviai) are a Baltic ethnic group.

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Livonia

Livonia or in earlier records Livland, is a historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

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Livonian Chronicle of Henry

The Livonian Chronicle of Henry (Heinrici Cronicon Lyvoniae) is a Latin narrative of events in Livonia (roughly corresponding to today's Estonia and the northern part of Latvia) and surrounding areas from 1180 to 1227.

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Livonian Crusade

The Livonian crusade consists of the various military Christianisation campaigns in medieval Livonia – modern Latvia and Estonia – during the Papal-sanctioned Northern Crusades in the 12th–13th century.

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Livonian Order

The Livonian Order was an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order, formed in 1237. Curonians and Livonian Order are medieval history of Latvia.

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Livonian Rhymed Chronicle

The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (Livländische Reimchronik) is a chronicle written in Middle High German by an anonymous author.

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Livonian War

The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia).

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Longship

Longships were a type of specialised Scandinavian warships that have a long history in Scandinavia, with their existence being archaeologically proven and documented from at least the fourth century BC.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.

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Norna-Gests þáttr

Nornagests þáttr or the Story of Norna-Gest is a legendary saga about the Norse hero Nornagestr, sometimes called Gestr, and here anglicized as Norna-Gest.

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Northern Crusades

The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and also against Orthodox Christian East Slavs.

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Oeselians

Oeselians or Osilians is a historical name for the people who prior to the Northern Crusades in the 13th century lived in the Estonian island of Saaremaa (Ösel) – the Baltic Sea island was also referred as Oeselia or Osilia in written records dating from around that time.

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Old Prussians

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. Curonians and Old Prussians are historical Baltic peoples.

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Olof (Swedish king 852)

Olof (Old Norse: Óláfr) was a Swedish monarch or local ruler who ruled over Birka, an important port town, and possibly Uppsala, an important early Swedish political center, in about 852, when the Catholic missionary Saint Ansgar made his second voyage from Germany to Birka in about the year 851 or 852 A.D.

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Palanga

Palanga (Palonga; Połąga; Polangen) is a resort city in western Lithuania, on the shore of the Baltic Sea.

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Peter of Dusburg

Peter of Dusburg (Peter von Dusburg; Petrus de Dusburg; died after 1326), also known as Peter of Duisburg, was a Priest-Brother and chronicler of the Teutonic Knights.

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Piemare

Piemare (Piemarė; Bihavelanc) was one of the main Curonian kihelkonds with an administrative center in Esestua (Seeburg) before the 13th century.

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Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen

The Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen (Fürsterzbistum Bremen) — not to be confused with the modern Archdiocese of Hamburg, founded in 1994 — was an ecclesiastical principality (787–1566/1648) of the Holy Roman Empire and the Catholic Church that after its definitive secularization in 1648 became the hereditary Duchy of Bremen (Herzogtum Bremen).

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Prussian Crusade

The Prussian Crusade was a series of 13th-century campaigns of Roman Catholic crusaders, primarily led by the Teutonic Knights, to Christianize under duress the pagan Old Prussians.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States. Curonians and Riga are Gulf of Riga.

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Rimbert

Saint Rimbert (or Rembert) (c. 830 - 11 June 888 in Bremen) was archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, in the northern part of the Kingdom of East Frankia from 865 until his death in 888.

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Saga

Sagas are prose stories and histories, composed in Iceland and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Scandinavia.

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Samogitia

Samogitia, often known by its Lithuanian name Žemaitija (Samogitian: Žemaitėjė; see below for alternative and historical names) is one of the five cultural regions of Lithuania and formerly one of the two core administrative divisions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania alongside Lithuania proper.

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Samogitian language

Samogitian (žemaitiu kalba or sometimes žemaitiu rokunda, žemaitiu šnekta or žemaitiu ruoda; žemaičių tarmė, žemaičių kalba), often considered a dialect of Lithuanian, is an Eastern Baltic language spoken primarily in Samogitia.

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Samogitians

Samogitians (Samogitian: žemaitē, žemaičiai, žemaiši) are the inhabitants of Samogitia, an ethnographic region of Lithuania.

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Saxo Grammaticus

Saxo Grammaticus, also known as Saxo cognomine Longus, was a Danish historian, theologian and author.

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Semigallians

Semigallians (Zemgaļi; Žiemgaliai; also Zemgalians, Semigalls or Semigalians) were the Baltic tribe that lived in the south central part of contemporary Latvia and northern Lithuania. Curonians and Semigallians are Gulf of Riga, historical Baltic peoples, medieval ethnic groups of Europe and medieval history of Latvia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curonians

Also known as Couronians, Curonian people, Kurs (tribe), Kurshi.

, Multilingualism, Norna-Gests þáttr, Northern Crusades, Oeselians, Old Prussians, Olof (Swedish king 852), Palanga, Peter of Dusburg, Piemare, Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, Prussian Crusade, Riga, Rimbert, Saga, Samogitia, Samogitian language, Samogitians, Saxo Grammaticus, Semigallians, Sigtuna, Sigurd Ring, Sweden, Talsi, Teutonic Order, Vendel Period, Venta (river), Ventspils, Vikings, Vita Ansgarii, Warrior.

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See also

Gulf of Riga

Historical Baltic peoples

Medieval ethnic groups of Europe

Medieval history of Latvia

Medieval history of Lithuania

Prehistory of Prussia

References