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Aesti

100 BC – 700
CultureEurope

Baltic-speaking people of the southeastern Baltic Sea coast (roughly the Sambia peninsula/modern Kaliningrad region) first described by Tacitus as amber-gatherers; ancestral to the later Old Prussians and closely related Baltic tribes.

No single conquest or dissolution event; the name and population gradually differentiate into the historically-named medieval Baltic peoples (Old Prussians, Curonians, and others), several of which appear as named groups in the historical-basemaps world_1000 snapshot ('Prussians', 'Kurs').

Borders in 100 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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