- In 1413, they became the last group of Europeans to convert to Christianity. Samogitians lived in the Duchy of Samogitia within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
- The Samogitian language, heavily influenced by Curonian, originated from the East Baltic proto-Samogitian dialect which was close to Aukštaitian dialects.
- Samogitian is an endangered language. In Lithuania, it is spoken mainly by older people and is not being passed on to younger generations.
- Samogitians. The Samogitian also Samogiten or Samaiten, Lithuanian Zemaiciai are a Baltic tribe. He is in the western Lithuania, Polotsk ( lit.
- The territory of the Samogitians became a duchy called Samogitia (or Žemaitija) and retained a high level of autonomy until the Union of Poland-Lithuania...
- In 1259 the Battle of Skuodas was fought where the Samogitians defeated the Livonian crusaders . At that time the Samogitians were intensively attacking Livonia.
- The peoples and languages mixed, and echoes of Curonian remain in Samogitian, especially in its pronunciation.
- Samogitians most probably spoke one of those languages (we have no doubts about the rest of them – Semigalians, Selonians, Latgalians and Lithuanians).
- Today, Samogitian has a standardised writing system but it still remains a spoken language, as nearly everyone writes in their native speech.
- Samogitian (not comparable). Of, from, or pertaining to the region of Samogitia, or its people. ... Noun. [edit]. Samogitian (plural Samogitians).