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.

The Baltic Crusades left major ecological and cultural scars on medieval pagan villages, and new archaeological evidence shows the campaign caused deforestation, pushed species to extinction and ...

The Baltic Crusades left major ecological and cultural scars on medieval pagan villages, and new archaeological evidence shows the campaign caused deforestation, pushed species to extinction and ...

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 ...

History looks strikingly different when the viewing angle is canted away from the ordinary. Writing the history of the Baltic region means bringing into a common frame the histories of Sweden, Finland ...

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.

The Baltic Crusades left major ecological and cultural scars on medieval pagan villages, and new archaeological evidence shows the campaign caused deforestation, pushed species to extinction and ...

The Baltic Crusades left major ecological and cultural scars on medieval pagan villages, and new archaeological evidence shows the campaign caused deforestation, pushed species to extinction and ...