Teutonic Knights complete Prussian conquest
1283
After decades of bloody crusading, the Teutonic Order broke the last Old Prussian resistance. A brother state based at Marienburg rose to rule the Baltic shore, importing German peasants and converting or exterminating pagan tribes. Christianity arrived at the end of a long lance. The Old Prussian language and culture were so thoroughly obliterated that the Prussian name itself was appropriated by the German colonists who replaced them.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.