Prehistoric Poland

thumb|400x400px|Several different regions called Germania (modern borders in green) Germania ( ; ), also more specifically called Magna Germania (English: Greater Germania), Germania Libera (English: Free Germania), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, was a historical region in north-central Europe during the Roman era, which was associated by Roman authors with the Germanic peoples. According to Roman geographers, this region stretched roughly from the Rhine in the west to the Vistula in the east, and to the Upper Danub

ancient trade route

archaeological culture

archaeological culture

archaeological culture 0-500CE in present-day Poland

The Lugii (or Lugi, Lygii, Ligii, Lugiones, Lygians, Ligians, Lugians, or Lougoi) were a group of tribes mentioned by Roman authors living in ca. 100 BC–300 AD in Central Europe, north of the Sudetes mountains in the basin of upper Oder and Vistula rivers, covering most of modern southern and middle Poland (regions of Silesia, Greater Poland, Mazovia and Lesser Poland).

thumb|Peoples of Pannonia. The territory of the Anartes is visible in the top right corner. The Anartes (or Anarti, Anartii or Anartoi) were Celtic tribes, or, in the case of those sub-groups of Anartes which penetrated the ancient region of Dacia (roughly modern Romania), Celts culturally assimilated by the Dacians.

archaeological culture

Prehistory and early history of Poland

village of Poland

According to a tale related by Jordanes in his Getica, Gothiscandza was the first settlement area of the Goths after their migration from Scandza during the first half of the 1st century CE. He claimed that the name was still in use in his own day (c. 551).

Overview of the history of Stone-Age Poland

prehistoric ethnically Baltic culture in northern Europe

Iron Age burial site in Scandinavia