From: Egijus
Message: 26563
Date: 2003-10-20
without a central power. Mindaugas and his successors claimed Sudovia as
part of their domain, but the Sudovians were actually an independent
people inhabiting what (unluckily, from their point of view) became in
the 13th c. a borderland disputed by all the neighbouring political
powers (the Teutonic Order, Poland, Lithuania and Rus').Hello,
Russia didn' had nothing to do with Duchy of Suduva until 1795. To the east from Duchy of Suduva was Lithuanian Duchy of Dainava, to the south from Duchy of Suduva was Suduvian Duchy of Jotva. Town Lietuvos Brasta (meaning is Lithuania's ford) belonged to Duchy of Jotva.
Baltic place names are being founded towards south from Lietuvos Brasta too.
Regards, Egijus