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Baltic states

Prehistory to the18th century

In prehistoric times Finno-Ugric tribes inhabited a long belt stretching across northern Europe from the Urals through northern Scandinavia, reaching south to present-day Latvia. The predecessors of the modern Balts bordered them along a belt to the south, stretching west from a region in what is now central Russia to the area of the mouth of the Vistula River in Poland. Large areas of present-day Russia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and northern Poland were settled by Balts. During the Bronze Age, roughly 1250 bc, the western part of this Baltic region became known in the civilized areas of the Mediterranean basin as the “land of amber.”

The extensive trade relations that developed lasted until the decline of the Roman Empire and the Germanic migrations. Thereafter, from the 8th century ad, the Baltic peoples experienced the expansion of the bellicose trading societies of Scandinavia, which made extensive use of the river systems. Likewise, from the 10th century they came under pressure from East Slav expansion, primarily in the region of modern Belarus.

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