- Galindians
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The name "Galinda" is thought to derive from the Baltic word *"galas" ("the end"), alluding to the fact that they settled for some time further west and further east than any other Baltic tribe.
Western Galindians
The Western Galindians (
Old Prussian : *"Galindis",Latin : "Galindae") were at first a West Baltictribe , and later the Old Prussianclan , which lived in Galindia, roughly the area of present-dayMasuria but including territory further south in would become theDuchy of Masovia . It was adjacent to the territory of theYotvingians , which is today inPodlaskie Voivodeship .Ptolemy was the first to mention the Galindians (Koine Greek : "Galindoi") in the 2nd century AD. From the 6th/7th century until the1600s the former central part of the Galindian tribe continued to exist as the Old Prussianclan of *Galindis.The language of the Old Prussians in Galindia became extinct by 1600s, mainly because of the 15th and 16th centuries influx of Protestants seeking refuge from Catholic Poland into Galindian area and German-language administration of Prussia.
Eastern Galindians
The Eastern Galindians (East Galindian: *"Galindai", Russian: golyad', голядь) is an extinct East Baltic
tribe , which from the 4th century lived in the basin of theProtva River , near the modernRussia n towns ofMozhaysk ,Vereya , andBorovsk . It is probable that the Eastern Galindians, as the bearers of theMoshchiny culture , also occupied all theKaluga Oblast , until theEarly East Slavs peopled the Moshchiny culture's area at the turn of 7th and 8th centuries Седов В.В., Восточные славяне в VI-XIII вв., М., 1982, c. 41-45.] .The Russian chronicles first mention Eastern Galindians as "Golyad"' in
1058 .Yury Dolgoruky arranged a campaign against them in1147 , the year he foundedMoscow in the land of the Galindians. After that, the Eastern Galindians are not mentioned in chronicles. Nevertheless, it's likely that they were not completely assimilated byRussians until the 15th (or 16th) century. [http://www.laborunion.lt/memorandum/ru/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=9 Седов В.В. Голядь] ] .There were people who still identified themselves as Golyads in the 19th century. [Wixman. "Peoples of the USSR". p. 75.
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Dniepr (Eastern) Balts
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