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18-567: Sudovia (Lithuanian: Sūduva ) can refer to: In geography [ edit ] Sudovia/ Yotvingia , ancient Baltic land inhabited by Sudovians / Yotvingians Suvalkija , one of the five cultural regions of Lithuania Suwałki Region , region in Poland near the border with Lithuania In sport [ edit ] Sūduva stadium , multi-use stadium in Marijampolė, Lithuania FK Sūduva Marijampolė ,

36-606: A football club from the city of Marijampolė, Lithuania BC Arvi-Sūduva , a basketball club of Marijampolė, Lithuania Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sudovia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sudovia&oldid=1256393731 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Lithuanian-language text Short description

54-610: A literary memorial giving a history of the (relatively recent) conversion of the Hungarians. After this diplomatic failure, Bruno went to Kyiv , where Grand Duke Vladimir I authorized him to make Christian converts among the Pechenegs , semi-nomadic Turkic peoples living between the Danube and the Don rivers. Bruno spent five months there and baptized some thirty adults. He helped to bring about

72-434: A peace treaty between them and the ruler of Kyiv. Before leaving for Poland, Bruno consecrated a bishop for the Pechenegs . While in Poland he consecrated the first Bishop of Sweden and is said to have sent emissaries to baptize the king of Sweden, whose mother had come from Poland. Bruno found out that his friend Benedict and four companions had been killed by robbers in 1003. Bruno took eyewitness accounts and wrote down

90-470: A touching history of the so-called Five Martyred Brothers. In the autumn or at the end of 1008 Bruno and eighteen companions set out to found a mission among the Old Prussians ; they succeeded in converting Netimer and then travelled to the east, heading very likely towards Yotvingia . Bruno met opposition in his efforts to evangelize the borderland and when he persisted in disregarding their warnings he

108-483: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Yotvingia Yotvingia or Sudovia ( Yotvingian : Sūdava , Lithuanian : Dainava , Polish : Jaćwież , German : Sudauen , Eastern Slavic : Яцьвезь (Ятвязь, Етвязь), Ятвягия) was a region where the Baltic tribe known as Yotvingians lived. It was located in the area of Sudovia and Dainava ; south west from

126-856: The Duchy of Lithuania . On 27 September 1422, the Treaty of Melno ended the Gollub War . The Treaty divided Yotvingia between the Teutonic Knights , the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . This Lithuanian history -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Polish history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bruno of Querfurt Bruno of Querfurt, O.S.B. Cam. , ( c. 974 – 14 February or 9/14 March 1009), also known as Brun ,

144-564: The Chaste organized an expedition against Yotvingia. On 23 June 1264 the two armies met near Brańsk . The Battle of Brańsk lasted two days pitting the forces of Yotvingia, led by Kumata against the well equipped Krakovian army. The Yotvingian forces were routed in a bloody battle and their leader killed. In the 1280s the Northern Yotvingians were partly conquered and dispersed by the Teutonic Knights ; some Yotvingians then took refuge in

162-601: The Great was bequeathed the Principality of Vladimir-in-Volhynia. He subdued the Yotvingians , and harnessed the captives instead of oxen to drag the plows on his estates. From the 13th century, Yotvingians began raiding adjacent areas of Masovia , Lublin and Volhynia , after Konrad I of Masovia and Daniel of Halych had invaded them. In 1264, the Duke of Krakow , Boleslaw V

180-522: The age of 33, to head a mission amongst the pagan peoples of Eastern Europe. Bruno left Rome in 1004, and having been named an archbishop was consecrated in February of that year by Archbishop Tagino of Magdeburg. Owing to a regional conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II and Duke Boleslaus I of Poland , Bruno could not go directly to Poland so he set out for Hungary. There he went to

198-537: The first "Apostle of the Prussians", killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself. Bruno spent much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot John Canaparius may have written a life of Adalbert. In 998, Bruno entered a Benedictine monastery near Ravenna that Otto had founded, and later underwent strict ascetic training under

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216-687: The guidance of Romuald . Otto III hoped to establish a monastery between the Elbe and the Oder (somewhere in the pagan lands that became Brandenburg or Western Pomerania ) to help convert the local population to Christianity and colonize the area. In 1001, two monks from his monastery travelled to Poland, while Bruno was with Otto in Italy, studying the language and awaiting the Apostolic appointment by Pope Sylvester II . In 1003 Pope Sylvester II appointed Bruno, at

234-532: The places that Adalbert of Prague had attended. Bruno tried to persuade Ahtum , the Duke of Banat , who was under the jurisdiction of Patriarchate of Constantinople to accept the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome , but this precipitated a large controversy leading to organized opposition from local monks. Bruno elected to gracefully exit the region after he first finished his book, the famous "Life of Adalbert of Prague ,"

252-554: The upper Nemunas , between Marijampolė , Merkinė ( Lithuania ), Slonim , Kobryn ( Belarus ), Białystok , and Ełk ( Poland ). Today this area corresponds mostly to the Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland , part of Lithuania and a part of Hrodna Province and Brest Province of Belarus . The Treaty of 944 between Kievan prince Igor and the Byzantine Empire has the names of many Rus' ambassadors - one of which

270-609: Was beheaded on 14 February (or 9 or 14 March) 1009, and most of his eighteen companions were hanged by Zebeden, brother of Netimer. Duke Boleslaus the Brave bought the bodies and brought them to Poland. (It was supposed that they were laid to rest in Przemyśl , where some historians place Bruno's diocese; such localization of Bruno's burial place is hardly probable because Przemyśl then belonged to Orthodox Kievan Rus through 1018.) The Annals of Magdeburg, Thietmar of Merseburg 's Chronicle ,

288-517: Was Jatviag Gunarev. It is also the first written documentation of the term Jatviag, or Yatviag. The southern part of the Yotvingian lands, Sudovia and Galindia , were subdued by Kievan Rus' army, led by Vladimir I of Kiev in 983. Netimeras , a ruler of the Yotvingians (part of Lithuanian kingdom), was converted to Christianity by Bruno of Querfurt in 1009. When his father died in 1170, Roman

306-580: Was a Christian missionary bishop , Camaldolese monk and martyr , who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania for trying to spread Christianity. He is also called the second "Apostle of the Prussians ". Bruno was from a noble family of Querfurt (now in Saxony-Anhalt ). He is rumoured to have been a relative of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III . At the age of six, he

324-580: Was sent to be educated at the cathedral school in Magdeburg , the seat of Adalbert of Magdeburg , the teacher and namesake of Adalbert of Prague . While still a youth, he was made a canon of the Cathedral of Magdeburg . The fifteen-year-old Otto III made Bruno a part of his royal court. In 995 Otto III appointed Bruno as his court chaplain. While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Adalbert of Prague ,

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