URGENT EDUCATION PROBLEMS OF KLAIPĖDA REGION IN THE 1ST HALF OF 20TH CENTURY

Baltic tribes had much in common, though differences between them also existed – they used to be separated by rivers, marshlands, lakes, wastelands and woods. Therefore, tribes received different names: Prussians, Jatvingians, Lithuanians (lowland and upland Lithuanians), Curonians, Semigallians, Selonians, Lettigallians. Presumably, before 18 th century Prussians and Jatvingians were assimilated by Lithuanians, Germans and Slavs. As a nation Lithuanians formed out of lowland and upland Lithuanians, southern Curonians, Selonians and Semigallians.