Talk:Balts

Balts

 * Balts (German "Balten") are a group of people ,who live at the Baltic Sea . The Baltic Sea or Eastern Sea ("Ostsee") was earlier by Tacitus in 98 AD Agricola and Germania called Mare Suebicum after the Suebi.


 * The languages of the Balts, or [Baltic Languages]? are classified as [East Baltic]? and [West Baltic]?. The Baltic Germans (Balten-Deutsche) were forced out of their homelands in Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia (earlier "Kurland, Livland, Lettland )by Stalin . They were either brought to Siberia , killed or escaped to the West, along with fifteen to eighteen million other ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe.


 * Some orphaned children of the German Balts and of neighboring Eastern Prussia were taken in and hidden from communist authorities . Stalin's military troups had overrun the Baltic lands and all of Eastern Europe, starting in winter 1944 .The Soviet Union occupied Lithuania ,Latvia and Esthonia for fifty years . After the fall of the Iron Curtain these children, called "Wolfskinder?" (children raised by wolfs) now are attempting to find out their identity.


 * Today only the Eastern Baltic countries are called Baltic States, because the Western Baltic country of Prussia has been dismembered by the Soviet Union, now Russia asOblast Kaliningrad.The larger part of West and East-Prussia is submerged into Poland. While millions of the inhabitants were killed or forced to leave ,some have been able to remain in their homeland of East or West Prussia, despited greatest hardships.In 1946/47 they received classification as "Autochthones" by the communist occupation Polish administration authorities.

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 * 1946 Prussia was NOT the Western Baltic Country!!! - it was one of the German Lands. Real Baltic Prussians were already germanizated by the German Teutonic Order (and later by Polish-Royal Prussia and German Prussia) till XVI-XVII century.

White
Similarity between the word Balt and Lithuanian word for white balta is most likely accidental and nothing but Folk etymology. There's no reliable linguistics study showing any connection between Lithuanian word balta and Mare Balticum, a name a German person came up with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.206.100.239 (talk) 19:58, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Awkward
"In accordance with the 2008 research results of Russian and Estonian geneticists, the Northern Russians (a subethnic group) genetically are very similar to the Balts." - This very awkward sentence is based on an old work in ignorance of the much more recent specialist literature given here and was somehow patched up at the end in a pointless way. Because already better expressed in the first sentence, referenced to the same team, I deleted this one. HJJHolm (talk) 13:30, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Ethnolinguistic group
The Balts are NOT an ethnolinguistic group (see that article for the Wikipedia definition) today. --95.24.68.172 (talk) 05:03, 24 February 2024 (UTC)