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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Aesti (also Aestii or Aests) were an ancient (most probably Baltic) people first described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his treatise Germania (circa 98 CE). According to Tacitus, Aestui, the land of the Aesti, was located somewhere east of the Suiones (Swedes) and west of the Sitones (possibly the Kvens), on the Suebian (Baltic) Sea. This and other evidence suggests that Aestui was in a region around the later East Prussia (now Kaliningrad Oblast).Geographical and linguistic evidence suggests that the Aesti were, ethnologically, a Baltic people and possibly synonymous with the Brus/Prūsa or Old Prussians (i.e., not a Germanic people such as the modern Prussians or a Finno-Ugric people, such as the Estonians). Tacitus almost certainly erred in implying that the Aesti were a hybrid Celtic-Germanic culture: he claimed that while the "Aestian nations" followed the "same customs and attire" as "the Suebians" (at the time a collective term for eastern Germanic peoples), their speech resembled that of the Britons (i.e., a Celtic language rather than the Germanic languages of the Suebii). Tacitus often utilised unreliable, secondary sources and may not have been aware of such distinctions in any case.Tacitus' mention of a cult of the mother of the gods among the Aesti along the eastern Baltic coast does apply to the ancient Estonian and Baltic pagan religions. He also refers to the Fenni living next to the Aesti—the Fenni being ancestors to the Finns or the Sámi would situate them closest to the Estonians. Ultimately, Tacitus' use of Aesti could apply equally well to either a specific people or to a grouping of ethnically diverse peoples across a wider area .In the modern Estonian language, Eesti is the endonym for "Estonia". Estonia was known as Estia or Hestia in some early Latin sources, and Eistland in ancient Scandinavian sagas. Estonians themselves used Maarahvas, meaning people of the land, to refer to themselves until the early modern era. The etymologies of Aesti and Eesti remain subjects of scholarly conjecture.Tacitus is also credited with recording the only surviving example of the Aestian language: glesum, an apparently Latinised word for amber and similar to the later Latvian equivalent: glīsas. Both may be loanwords from a Germanic language, given their similarity to the Gothic word glas.There is evidence that the area around the Vistula Lagoon was strongly associated with the Aesti: the Old Prussian and modern Lithuanian names for the lagoon, Aistmarės and Aīstinmari respectively, appear to be derived from Aesti and mari ("lagoon" or "fresh water bay"). Therefore, the oldest known name of the body of the water was "lagoon of the Aesti"."@en }

• Aesti abstract "The Aesti (also Aestii or Aests) were an ancient (most probably Baltic) people first described by the Roman historian Tacitus in his treatise Germania (circa 98 CE). According to Tacitus, Aestui, the land of the Aesti, was located somewhere east of the Suiones (Swedes) and west of the Sitones (possibly the Kvens), on the Suebian (Baltic) Sea. This and other evidence suggests that Aestui was in a region around the later East Prussia (now Kaliningrad Oblast).Geographical and linguistic evidence suggests that the Aesti were, ethnologically, a Baltic people and possibly synonymous with the Brus/Prūsa or Old Prussians (i.e., not a Germanic people such as the modern Prussians or a Finno-Ugric people, such as the Estonians). Tacitus almost certainly erred in implying that the Aesti were a hybrid Celtic-Germanic culture: he claimed that while the "Aestian nations" followed the "same customs and attire" as "the Suebians" (at the time a collective term for eastern Germanic peoples), their speech resembled that of the Britons (i.e., a Celtic language rather than the Germanic languages of the Suebii). Tacitus often utilised unreliable, secondary sources and may not have been aware of such distinctions in any case.Tacitus' mention of a cult of the mother of the gods among the Aesti along the eastern Baltic coast does apply to the ancient Estonian and Baltic pagan religions. He also refers to the Fenni living next to the Aesti—the Fenni being ancestors to the Finns or the Sámi would situate them closest to the Estonians. Ultimately, Tacitus' use of Aesti could apply equally well to either a specific people or to a grouping of ethnically diverse peoples across a wider area .In the modern Estonian language, Eesti is the endonym for "Estonia". Estonia was known as Estia or Hestia in some early Latin sources, and Eistland in ancient Scandinavian sagas. Estonians themselves used Maarahvas, meaning people of the land, to refer to themselves until the early modern era. The etymologies of Aesti and Eesti remain subjects of scholarly conjecture.Tacitus is also credited with recording the only surviving example of the Aestian language: glesum, an apparently Latinised word for amber and similar to the later Latvian equivalent: glīsas. Both may be loanwords from a Germanic language, given their similarity to the Gothic word glas.There is evidence that the area around the Vistula Lagoon was strongly associated with the Aesti: the Old Prussian and modern Lithuanian names for the lagoon, Aistmarės and Aīstinmari respectively, appear to be derived from Aesti and mari ("lagoon" or "fresh water bay"). Therefore, the oldest known name of the body of the water was "lagoon of the Aesti".".