Baltic

The Baltic group includes the Lithuanians, Latvians, Prussians, Curonians and Sudovians, together with the Finnic Estonians and Livs and the Germans who settled among them. In the thirteenth century the Teutonic and Livonian Orders conquered the Prussians, Livs and Latvians.

The pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania resisted; Jogaila accepted baptism in 1386, and Samogitia converted only in 1413. The Union of Lublin joined Lithuania with Poland in 1569, Livonia broke up in the war of 1558–1583, and Russia took Estonia and Livonia from Sweden in 1710.