Ancient Lithuanian Kanklės / Construction, distribution

Selonian, Semigolian, Samogitian, Curonian

The old Baltic Selonian, Semigolian and Curonian tribes inhabited in current Lithuania and Latvia, while Samogitians - in western Lithuania.

Picture: Baltic tribes in 9th - 12th cc.:

1 - Lithuanians,

2 - Curonians,

3 - Semigolians,

4 - Selonians,

5 - Samogitians,

6 - Nadruvians,

7 - Prussians,

8 - Jotvingians,

9 - Skalvians,

10 - Latgalians,

11 - lithuanizated Baltic tribes;

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Picture: Baltic tribes in the beginning of 2nd millennium A. D. in the territory of current Lithuania:

1 - Curonians,

2 - Skalvians,

3 - Samogitians,

4 - Semigolians,

5 - Aukštaičiai,

6 - Jotvingians,

7 - Selonians,

8 - Latgalians,

9 - Eastern Slavs;

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