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Baltic warfare since time immemorial to the 13th century

Prior to the Middle Ages

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Balts

Prehistory

Since at least c. 1500 B.C., the territory of present-day Belarus was inhabited by Balts as a result of the Indo-European migrations. In the Iron Age, the south of present-day Belarus was inhabited by Baltic tribes belonging to the Milograd (7th-3rd century BC) and later Zarubintsy cultures.

Protohistory

Belarus was inhabited mostly by Balts until the 7th-8th centuries AD, and in some places even longer.

According to Russian archaeologist Valentin Sedov, it was intensive contacts with the Balts that contributed to the distinctiveness of the Belarusian tribes from the other Eastern Slavs. The Lithuanian professor Zigmas Zinkevičius states that Belarusians as a nation formed on a Baltic, i.e. Lithuanian, basis, which manifests in their anthropology, mythology, ethnography and language. The Belarusian geneticist Aliaksiej Mikulič concluded from his research that Belarusians are genetically Balts, akin to Lithuanians and Latvians.

Sources

• Zinkevičius, Zigmas (2007). Senosios Lietuvos valstybės vardynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas.