Antrojo amžiaus sūduvių kolonija prie Romos imperijos šiaurinių sienų

LTNepriklausomos Lietuvos istorikai pagaliau XXI amžiuje pradeda atidengti giliausius mūsų tautos civilizacinės kultūros klodus ir pateikia vientisą, grindžiamą išsamia kultūrų raida lietuvių kilmės istoriją. Galima tuo tik džiaugtis ir didžiuotis – lietuvių tautos kilmės giliais, 6000–5000 metų, kultūros raidos klodais. Šis „Terra Jatwezenorum“ metraščio 10 tomui skirtas straipsnis yra metraščio 9 tomo 1 dalyje publikuoto K. Subačiaus straipsnio „Sūduviai, jotviai-jotvingiai, dainaviai, palekiai-paleksėnai. Sūduva ir Jotva“ temos tolesnis nagrinėjimas. Minėtame straipsnyje buvo apžvelgta lietuvių etninių Sūduvos žemių kultūros raida ir sūduvių kul tūros žmonių dalyvavimas lietuvių genezėje. Todėl čia bus atsisakyta bendrosios sūduvių kultūros raidos apžvalgos ir tik dėl konteksto bus paliesti esminiai sūduvių kultūros bruožai.

ENThe history of Lithuania on the world stage was constructed not by the Lithuanian historians, but by Polish, German or Russian ones, and was dominated by the legendary West Gothic history that located them in the area of the origins of Aesti /Baltic culture; the dominance of the claims of the Slavs - Poles and Russians to the lands of the Baltic culture was felt. Until the restoration of the state the historiography of the ethnic Lithuanian lands of the Sudovian region was not present at all; bits and pieces of the episodic history were intentionally distorted and had no relation to the baltic nature. We must be grateful to the prominent scientist Marija Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė who expanded the boundaries of the recognition of the baltic cultures and uncovered the forgotten history of the Lithuanian ethno genesis in her work Baltai priešistoriniais laikais: Etnogenezė, materialinė kultūra ir mitologija (1985, Vilnius). The beginning of the 19th century is extremely successful with regard to the Lithuanian history as a field of science. Eugenijus Jovaiša published two monographs, namely, Aisčiai. Kilmė (2013, Vilnius) and Aisčiai. Raida (2014), in which he presents a summary of his long scientific experience and the materials accumulated in archaeological research. For the first time in the history of Lithuania his works present and ground the integral theory of the origin of the Lithuanian nation as a result of migration processes of the representatives of the Western Aestis, the Wielbark, the Galindian, and the Sudovian culture. The most important fact is that Jovaiša’s works denied Jordan‘s legendary theory of the origins of West Goths and, on the basis of archaeological research, proved the dependence of the territories on both sides of Vysla and Oder to the culture of Aestis /Balts.To us, the representatives of the current Sudovian region, Eugenijus Jovaiša’s newly revealed descriptions of the Ptolemy European Sarmaty and the Great Germanic people are very important, but the second name of the Sudinians, which is taken by Jovaiša from the Ptolemy’s description of the Germanic people, is especially significant to the Lithuanian history as a field of science. It expands the boundaries of the Lithuanian origin research, clarifies the understanding of the position of the Sudinian culture in the Lithuanian genesis as well as presents the links of historical course with the further development of the baltic culture. The article, based on Eugenijus Jovaiša’s localization of the second Ptolemy Sudinians near the northern walls of the Roman Empire, which were built along the Danube River in front of the Roman Noricum province, contains important arguments about the trading relations between the Sudovians and the Romans, which lasted for many centuries, emphasizes the importance of the Amber Road in the development of the Aestis, and makes assumptions about the toponym Sudeten Mountains as originating from the onym sudini. In addition, Jovaiša gives some insights into the mission of the Aestis (6th century) to the emperor of the East Gothic Empire, Theoderic the Great, which were aimed at restoring the trade links and seeking a union against the aggressive Avars who were patronized by the byzantine Empire. The paper argues that even after eight hundred years of the inclusion of Ptolemy‘s Sudinians into the history of the world, the second Sudovians of Ptolemy who, during the first centuries after Christ, actively participated in the life of the Aestis tribes and helped to create the Galindian-Sudovian culture in the ethnic lands of the Aestis, are still discovered near the Danube river.

• Istorija / History
• Archeologija / Archaeology