The Baltic Tribes were colonized and converted over a series of campaigns. Germanic crusading orders waged major campaigns against the Prussian and Livonian Baltic peoples in the 13th century.

Though early Baltic tribes rebuffed Jewish settlements, Jews arrived in the later part of the 16th century after the country came under the control of Denmark, Poland and Lithuania.

Around 1,000 years ago, pagans living near the Baltic Sea imported horses from their newly Christian northern neighbors and then subjected the animals to gruesome public sacrifice, a new study ...

Horses crossed the Baltic Sea in ships during the Late Viking Age and were sacrificed for funeral rituals, ... persisting the latest among the Baltic tribes, up to the 14 th century AD.

Curonians is a historical documentary about one of the ancient Baltic tribes The Curonians lived in the western parts of modernday Latvia from the 5th until the 16th ...

It was the defensive alliance with the Baltic tribes, where the Slavs taught them how to read, introduced them to the philosophy of Christianity. Follow us on: More about President.