Natangians
Sign in to saveNatangians or Notangians (; ; ; ) was a Prussian clan, which lived in the region of Natangia, an area that is now mostly part of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad Oblast, whereas the southern portion lies in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Natangians
- Ethnic group.population
- Extinct in 17th–18th century
- Ethnic group.image
- Prussian clans 13th century.png
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Natangians (in brown) and other Prussian clans in the 13th century
- Ethnic group.region1
- Natangia, Prussia (now Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia and Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Old Prussian, later also German
- Ethnic group.religions
- Prussian mythology (Paganism)
- Ethnic group.related c
- Other Prussians and Balts
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Natangians or Notangians (; ; ; ) was a Prussian clan, which lived in the region of Natangia, an area that is now mostly part of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad Oblast, whereas the southern portion lies in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
In the 13th century, when the Teutonic Knights began their crusade against the Prussians, some 15,000 people might have lived in the area between the Pregolya and Łyna rivers. The Natangian lands bordered with Sambia in the north, Warmia in the west and south, and Bartia in the southeast. They likely spoke a West Baltic language, now extinct, similar to Old Prussian language.