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The Livs and their christened chief Caupo …
Years: 1208 - 1208
January
The Livs and their christened chief Caupo of Turaida had rebelled against the tightening grip of the German crusaders.
Caupo's forces had been defeated at Turaida in 1206, and the Livonians declared to be converted.
The Knights of the Sword, aided by the newly converted local tribes of Livs and Letts, initiate raids into part of what is present-day Estonia.
By 1208, the important Daugava River trade posts of Salaspils (Holme), …
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Latgalians (Eastern Balts)
- Selonians (Eastern Balts)
- Latvians, or Letts (Eastern Balts)
- Livs
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Knights of the Sword (Order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, or Livonian Knights)
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Northern Crusades, or Baltic Crusades
- Livonian Crusade
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Years: 1208 - 1208
January
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Latgalians (Eastern Balts)
- Selonians (Eastern Balts)
- Latvians, or Letts (Eastern Balts)
- Livs
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Knights of the Sword (Order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, or Livonian Knights)
Topics
- Crusades, The
- Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
- Northern Crusades, or Baltic Crusades
- Livonian Crusade
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions