Skalvians
Sign in to savethumb|The Skalvians in the context of the other Baltic tribes, Common Era|CE. The Eastern Balts are shown in brown hues while the Western Balts are shown in green. The boundaries are approximate. The Scalovians (; ), also known as the Skalvians, Schalwen and Schalmen, were a Baltic tribe related to the Prussians. According to the Chronicon terrae Prussiae of Peter of Dusburg, the now extinct Scalovians inhabited the land of Scalovia south of the Curonians and Samogitians, by the lower Neman River ca. 1240.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Skalvian
- Language.altname
- Scalovian
- Language.ethnicity
- Skalvians
- Language.region
- Lithuania and Kaliningrad
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Balto-Slavic
- Language.fam3
- West Baltic ?
- Language.iso3
- svx
- Language.linglist
- svx
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.map
- West Baltic languages.svg
- Language.mapcaption
- Former extent of West Baltic languages, including Skalvian.
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thumb|The Skalvians in the context of the other Baltic tribes, Common Era|CE. The Eastern Balts are shown in brown hues while the Western Balts are shown in green. The boundaries are approximate. The Scalovians (; ), also known as the Skalvians, Schalwen and Schalmen, were a Baltic tribe related to the Prussians. According to the Chronicon terrae Prussiae of Peter of Dusburg, the now extinct Scalovians inhabited the land of Scalovia south of the Curonians and Samogitians, by the lower Neman River ca. 1240.
==Geography== This region is located at both sides of the river Memel north of Nadruvians and south of Samogitia. In the North-East it stretched to rivers Šešupė, Ežeruona and Jūra. In the East it bordered on Sudovia, in the North-West on river Minija, in the West on the Curonian Lagoon and in the South-West on river Gilija. The center were the towns of Rusnė, Ragainė and Tilžė.