The Balts, defeated by the Goths around 300, remain in their ancestral homeland.

Tacitus in 98 CE had described one of the tribes living near the Baltic Sea (Mare Svebicum) as Aestiorum gentes and amber gatherers.

It is believed that these peoples were inhabitants of Sambia, the peninsula northwest of present Kaliningrad, although no other contemporary sources exist.

This homeland includes all historical Balts, and every location where Balts are thought to have been at different periods in time.

The huge area of Baltic habitation will shrink over time, due to assimilation by other groups, and to invasions.