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The map showing the territory of already partially assimilated Yotvingians.
Yotvingian kurhan, piliagarbas in the area of Suwałki
The biggest Yotvingian kurhan in the area of Suwałki

Yotvingians or Sudovians (also called Suduvians, Jatvians, or Jatvingians in English) (Template:Lang-lt; Template:Lang-lv; Template:Lang-pl, Template:Lang-be) were a Baltic people with close cultural ties to the Lithuanians and Prussians. The Yotvingian language (Sudovian) was a Western Baltic language nearest to Prussian, but with small variations.

Sudovians (by Slavs, who conquered the area called Jaczwingian and similar) lived in the area of Sudovia and Dainava (Yotvingia); south west from the upper Neman, between Marijampolė, Merkinė (Lithuania), Slonim, Kobrin (Belarus), Białystok, and Lyck, Prussia (after 1945 Ełk (Poland).

Today this area corresponds mostly to the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland, portions of Lithuania and a part of Hrodna Province of Belarus.

Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD called the people Sudinoi.


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