... Grobiņa was, in his opinion, more an agricultural colony of Eastern Scandinavians, who, for some unknown reason, had moved to the lower reaches of the Ǡlanda River, lived in the area for about 200 years, and were finally assimilated ...

... Grobiņa (Grobin), situated on a small river in Latvian Curonia about 10km from the sea with a lagoon-like lake in between. Three burial grounds containing cremations with Gotlandic and mainland Scandinavian artefacts from the seventh to ...

... Grobiņa and its vicinity was prompted by their desire to wrest from the Curonians the control of the amber trade.170 However, no amber has been found in the barrow fields left by immigrants in the Grobiņa surroundings.171 In the mate ...

... Grobiņa also continued after the mid-ninth century, when foreign burials in surrounding cemeteries stopped and Scandinavian artefactual material ceased, both in Grobiņa and around it. It is obvious that the ways in which local societies ...

... Grobiņa, see Petrenko and Urtāns, The Archaeological Monuments; Valk, “The Vikings,” p. 488; Bogucki, “Grobiņa.” Kazanski, “Skandinavskaia mekhovaia torgovlia,” pp. 42–60 attributes both sites to an early medieval fur trade network. 90 ...

... Grobiņa in Latvia and Apuole in Lithuania . The largest Scandinavian colony appears to have been Grobiņa . The existence of Scandinavian graves at a site in the city dating from 650 to 850 demonstrates that the Norse had already been in ...

... Grobiņa district to the Margrave of Brandenburg - Albreht , Duke of Prussia . The Grobiņa district remained a part of Prussia from 1560 to 1608. ' In 1585 Piltene district fell into the hands of Albreht's son , Georg Friedrich , the ...

... Grobiņa , he corrected Bras- tinš's model . Kuldīga was recognized as the central site of northern Curonians , and Grobiņa as the central Curonian port . " The role of Grobiņa as the main trade centre was obvious . However , the subordi ...