Prussian Crusade

The Prussian Crusade was a series of 13th-century campaigns of Roman Catholic crusaders, primarily led by the Teutonic Knights, to Christianize under duress the pagan Old Prussians. Invited after earlier unsuccessful expeditions against the Prussians by Christian Polish princes, the Teutonic Knights began campaigning against the Prussians, Lithuanians and Samogitians in 1230. By the end of the century, having quelled several Prussian uprisings, the Knights had established control over Prussia and administered the conquered Prussians through their monastic state, eventually erasing the Prussian language, culture and pre-Christian religion by a combination of physical and ideological force. Some Prussians took refuge in neighboring Lithuania.

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1217 — 1274  Wikimedia, Wikidata
war, Holy Roman Empire, Teutonic Order, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Old Prussians, Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia, Kingdom of Poland, Order of Dobrzyń, Yotvingians, Duchy of Pomerania, Order of Calatrava, Skalvians, Duchy of Masovia, 

Aso, Galicia, Galicia, Galicia, Galicia, 

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Hermann von Salza Painting

A map of the Baltic Tribes about 1200 CE

Teutonic victory in Prussia

• Chronicon terrae Prussiae - 1326 chronicle of the Teutonic Order, Latin

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Hermann von Salza Painting		Commons
commons	image		A map of the Baltic Tribes about 1200 CE		Commons
commons	image		Teutonic victory in Prussia		Commons