Grobiņa
Grobiņa ( pronunciation (help·info); German: Grobin) is a town in western Latvia, eleven kilometers east of Liepāja. It was founded by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century. Some ruins of their Grobina castle
Grobina castle are still visible. The town was given its charter in 1695. During the Early Middle Ages, Grobiņa
Grobiņa (or Grobin) was the most important political centre on the territory of Latvia. There was a centre of Scandinavian settlement on the Baltic Sea, comparable in many ways to Hedeby
Hedeby and Birka
Birka but probably predating them both
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.[n 1] The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position, and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position
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The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem[2] (official names: Latin: Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum, German: Orden der Brüder vom Deutschen Haus der Heiligen Maria in Jerusalem), commonly the Teutonic Order (Deutscher Orden, Deutschherrenorden or Deutschritterorden), is a Catholic religious order
Catholic religious order founded as a military order c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Teutonic Order
Teutonic Order was formed to aid Christians
Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land
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Holy Land and to establish hospitals
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Coordinates: 55°N 24°E / 55°N 24°E / 55; 24 Lithuania
Lithuania (/ˌlɪθjuˈeɪniə/ ( listen);[11] Lithuanian: Lietuva [lʲɪɛtʊˈvɐ]), officially the Republic
Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe. One of the three Baltic states, it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden
Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia
Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland
Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania
Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people as of 2017[update], and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Lithuanians
Lithuanians are a Baltic people
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Apuolė is a historic village in Skuodas district municipality, Lithuania. It is situated some 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Skuodas on the banks of the Luoba River.[1] It had a population of 132 according to the 2001 census[2] and 119 according to the 2011 census.[3] Having survived a viking attack in 854, Apuolė is the oldest Lithuanian settlement mentioned in written sources. Since 2004, the attack is commemorated by an annual medieval reenactment Apuolė 854. History[edit]Apuolė moundArchaeological excavation in 1931Apuolė was an important hill fort of the Curonians, one of the Baltic tribes. Archaeologists dated the wooden fortress to the 1st century AD.[1] The hill fort is situated on the confluence of Luoba and its tributary Brukis rivulet. According to archaeological research, a large village was situated near the hill fort
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Vita Ansgari is the biography of Ansgar, written by Rimbert, his successor as archbishop in Hamburg-Bremen. Written in about 875 CE, the Vita is an important source in not only detailing Ansgar's missionary work in Scandinavia but in its descriptions of the everyday lives of people during the Viking Age.[1] See also[edit]HagiographyReferences[edit]^ Jesch, Judith (1991). Women in the Viking Age. Boydell Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-85115-360-5. External links[edit]Vita Ansgari, English translation from Medieval sourcebookThis article about a saint is a stub. You can help by expanding it.v t eThis article about a biographical or autobiographical book on Christian
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Saint Rimbert (or Rembert) (Flanders, 830 – 11 June 888 in Bremen) was archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg from 865 until his death. A monk in Turholt (Torhout), he shared a missionary trip to Scandinavia
Scandinavia with his friend Ansgar, whom he later succeeded as archbishop in Hamburg-Bremen
Hamburg-Bremen in 865.[1] He also wrote a biography about Ansgar; Vita Ansgari. Rimbert was unable to successfully complete the mission work to Denmark
Denmark and Sweden, begun under Ansgar. He obtained market, coinage and toll rights for the city of Bremen in 888 from Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia and thus considerable improved the financial state of the archbishopric
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Swedish ( svenska (help·info) [²svɛnːska]) is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden
Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and to some extent with Danish, although the degree of mutual intelligibility is largely dependent on the dialect and accent of the speaker. Both Norwegian and Danish are generally easier to read than to listen to because of difference in accent and tone when speaking. Swedish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples
Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Era
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Gotland
Gotland (/ˈɡɒtlənd/; Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɔtland] ( listen),[3] older spellings include Gottland /ˈɡɒtlənd/ or Gothland /ˈɡɒθlənd/,[4]), Gutland in the local dialect,[5] is a province, county, municipality, and diocese of Sweden. It is Sweden's largest island.[6][7][8][9] The province includes the islands of Fårö
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Fårö and Gotska Sandön
Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands (Lilla and Stora) to the west
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Mälaren
Mälaren (Swedish: [²mɛːlarɛn] ( listen)), historically referred to as Lake Malar in English, is the third-largest freshwater lake in Sweden
Sweden (after Vänern
Vänern and Vättern). Its area is 1,140 km² and its greatest depth is 64 m. Mälaren spans 120 kilometers from east to west. The lake drains, from south-west to north-east, into the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea through its natural outlets Norrström
Norrström and Söderström (as it flows around Stadsholmen island) and through the artificial Södertälje Canal
Södertälje Canal and Hammarbyleden
Hammarbyleden waterway. The easternmost bay of Mälaren, in central Stockholm, is called Riddarfjärden. The lake is located in Svealand and bounded by the provinces of Uppland, Södermanland, Närke, and Västmanland
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Vikings
Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate",[1] Danish and Bokmål: vikinger; Swedish and Nynorsk: vikingar; Icelandic: víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.[2][3] The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Viking home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age
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Northern Europe
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Europe is the general term for the geographical region in Europe
Europe that is approximately north of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. Nations usually included within this region are Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia
Latvia and Lithuania, and occasionally Ireland, Britain, northern Germany, northern Belarus
Belarus and northwest Russia. Narrower definitions may be based on other geographical factors such as climate and ecology. A broader definition would include the area north of the Alps
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Latvia, (/ˈlætviə/ ( listen); Latvian: Latvija [ˈlatvija]), officially the Republic
Republic of Latvia
Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Republika), is an independent republic in the Baltic region
Baltic region of Northern Europe.[13] Since its independence, Latvia
Latvia has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia
Estonia in the northern region, Lithuania
Lithuania in the southern, to the east is Russia, and Belarus
Belarus to the southeast, as well as sharing a maritime border with Sweden
Sweden to the west
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A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus. Tumuli are often categorised according to their external apparent shape. In this respect, a long barrow is a long tumulus, usually constructed on top of several burials, such as passage graves. A round barrow is a round tumulus, also commonly constructed on top of burials. The internal structure and architecture of both long and round barrows has a broad range, the categorization only refers to the external apparent shape. The method of inhumation may involve a dolmen, a cist, a mortuary enclosure, a mortuary house, or a chamber tomb
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The Baltic Sea
Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany
Germany and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic, with limited water exchange between the two bodies, the Baltic Sea
Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat
Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt
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Scandinavia[a] (/ˌskændɪˈneɪviə/ SKAN-dih-NAY-vee-ə) is a region in Northern Europe, characterized by common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages.[2] The term Scandinavia
Scandinavia in local usage covers the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, but in English usage, it also sometimes refers to the Scandinavian Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula or to the broader region which includes Finland
Finland and Iceland.[1] This broader region is usually known locally as the Nordic countries.[3] The remote Norwegian islands of Svalbard
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen are usually not seen as a part of Scandinavia, nor is Greenland, a constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark
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