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;
(Lietuvių etnogenezė 1987:186).
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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;
(Volkaitė - Kulikauskienė 1970:39).
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