Kails!
You are on the Prussian site,
Prussia is mostly known as a historic German state with its capital in Berlin
Brandenburg.
Prussia was also a
pre-German Baltic land of the Balts Old Prussians, conquered by the
German Order in the 13th c., being ruled by German-speaking authorities as an
independent Baltic state till 1663 and fully united with Brandenburg
after 1701.
Baltic Prussia has been divided between Poland and Russia since 1945.
Today it is inhabited mostly by the Poles and the Russians.
(Modern Lithuanian part of
former German Prussia never was entirely ethnic Baltic-Prussian
but was mostly a habitat of the Old Curonians, part of Scalovians,
newcomers Lithuanians, Latvians and Germans).
This site deals with Baltic, not German, Prussia, or PRŪSA, i.e. a historical
territory of Sambia, Scalovia, Nadrovia, Natangia, Varmia, Pomesania,
Pogesania, Bartha, Lubava, Sasna, Galindia, Sudovia.
Very often the name of the
Balts is associated with inhabitants of the Baltic States Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania, but the Baltic languages are erroneously
identified with the Slavic languages. This site does not deal with
Finno-Ugrians Estonians, but the term Balts is used to identify peoples
speaking Baltic languages (Prussian, Lithuanian, Latvian). Although the
term Baltic languages (by G.H.F. Nesselmann, 1845) for Lithuanian, Latvian and Prussian was
artificially introduced only in the 19th c., the Balts Aistians
were first mentioned by Tacitus in the 1st c., but the Balts Galindians and Sudines were
mentioned by Ptolemaeus Claudius in the 2nd c. As for the
Slavs (and Slavic), they first were mentioned by Jordanis in the 6th c.
This term is etymologically related to the name of the Prussian tribe of
Scalovians, but all Slavic languages possess common features
which clearly differentiate them from much more archaic Baltic
languages. Thus the Balts have preserved Sanskrit-, Greek- and
Latin-like grammatical endings, i.e. so-called "sigmatic" ones
with -s, but the Prussians preserved nasal grammatical endings
additionally.
A student of Prussian will find
all known Old Prussian monuments, their linguistic analysis, a
five-languages Old Prussian Dictionary (English, German, Polish,
Lithuanian, Latvian) and a Reverse Dictionary here.
Current and classical works on Prussian are also placed here constantly.
Nevertheless this site is created mostly for
those who are interested in the revival of the Prussian language and the
Prussian ethnicity at least in the form of a virtual world community, if
not a real dispersed community. Today the single officially registered
ethnic Baltic Prussian community exists in Lithuania, but various New
Prussian groups constantly appear mostly among Neo-Pagans in Poland. The
oldest New Prussian group is Tolkemita in Germany and its Prusa-Group
branch. Inofficial ethnic Prussian community is on the stage of
formation in the region of Kaliningrad.
There is a tendency (especial
among the Neo-Pagans) to associate the revival of Prussian with the
revival of pre-historic Pagan Prussians and their ethnic religion. This
site does not negate restoring of the original elements of the Baltic
Prussian ethnicity, nevertheless the Prussians are comprehended as
A:
historically moving from a community based on genetic physical
relationship toward a community based on spiritual relationship
B:
with a free and widest possibility to confess any views,
C:
but united by 1) the whole previous history, 2) common
self-determination and common name, 3) common revived Prussian language,
4) adopting main elements of the Baltic folklore and various historical
local customs (manners) of any origin which existed on the territory of
Baltic Prussia, 5) perceiving this territory as the single real
homeland.
What is the sense to revive
Prussian and Prussians?
- First, for those who want
to do this.
- Secondly, for the sake of uniting Europe in order it should not turn
into a union of several rich industrial countries but into a union of
all historic ingredients, which had historically formed the face of
Europe.
- Thirdly, this will help inhabitants of the region of Kaliningrad to
find their self-identification and ties with the land of the Prusai
(Baltic Prussians), what is especially necessary under the developing
driftage of the region toward European Union.
The Prussian romanticism seems
to be immortal. The ideas of revival existed even under the conditions
of the German state after 1914, but they did not disappear after 1945,
on the contrary!
If you like this, do not
hesitate to contribute to the development of the world Prussian
Community.
As an instrument of the revival
an International Research Institute of Prussology (IRIP) should
be created. This site may become a germ of this Institute, therefore
various experts (historians, archaeologists, linguists, ethnologists,
lawyers, politologists) are invited from all over the world to cooperate
and to organize common conferences under the heading of the IRIP.
Let us reconstruct and revive
Baltic Prussia and Baltic Prussians!
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