Yotvingia

Yotvingia
Sūdava
Dainava
Yotvingia Sūdava; Dainava
7th century–1442
Capital	Skomandburg; (c. 1260-1281)
Government
• King	Netimeras; (c. 980)
• Duke (kuningas)	Komantas; (c. 1260-1281); Kantigirdas; (c. 1283)
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	7th century
• Disestablished	1442
	Succeeded by
Trakai Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1795)
Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights

Yotvingia or Sudovia (

Today this area corresponds mostly to the

History

The Treaty of 944 between Kievan prince Igor and the Byzantine Empire has the names of many Rus' ambassadors - one of which was Jatviag Gunarev. It is also the first written documentation of the term Jatviag, or Yatviag.

The southern part of the Yotvingian lands, Sudovia and

Vladimir I of Kiev

in 983.

Netimeras, a ruler of the Yotvingians (part of Lithuanian kingdom), was converted to Christianity by Bruno of Querfurt in 1009.

When his father died in 1170,

plows on his estates.^[2]

From the 13th century, Yotvingians began raiding adjacent areas of

In 1264, the

Boleslaw V the Chaste organized an expedition against Yotvingia. On 23 June 1264 the two armies met near Brańsk. The Battle of Brańsk

In the 1280s the Northern Yotvingians were partly conquered and dispersed by the

Teutonic Knights; some Yotvingians then took refuge in the Duchy of Lithuania

On 27 September 1422, the

^ Senkus, Roman (2001). "Roman Mstyslavych [Mstyslavyč] (Romanko)". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
^ Vernadsky, George. Kievan Russia.