Notangians
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Notangians (pruss.: *Notangi), with extinct language (partly Lithuanised and Germanised by 16th century) clan of Prussian people from the area of Natangia, marked by the rivers Pregel and Alle (now Pregolya and Lyna). Their lands bordered with Sambia by Pregolya and Varmia in the direction of the Vistula Bay.
The Prussian territory of Natangen was derived from one of the Prussian brothers, named Natango.
Natangians, Notangians were often mentioned in Teutonic Order's chronicles in connection with their revolts (together with the other Prussians) against the Order; most of them participated also in the Sambian-Notangian peasants’ revolt of 1525. The 14th century chronicle by Peter of Dusburg provided plots for the historical drama Herkus Mantas by Juozas Grušas (about a fate of the Notangian and all-Prussian chief Herkus Monte[1]), opera The Prussians by Giedrius Kuprevičius, and the film Herkus Mantas by Marijonas Giedrys.
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- ^ The Notangian *Montimins had received in childhood the German baptismal name Heinrich, but re-converting to ancient Prussian religion in 1260, he dropped two letters in the Latin form of his name (Henrikus), and from then on called himself Herkus Montimins/Monte.
