Skalmantas
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Skomantas/Komantas is a name of:
- Skomantas of SudoviaSkomantas of SudoviaSkomantas, or Komantas was a powerful duke and pagan priest of the Sudovians/Yotvingians, one of the early Baltic tribes Skomantas, or Komantas (in Jatvingian *Gomants or *Komants, in Ruthenian Komat, in Latin Koommat, in German Skomand and Skumand; ca. 1225(?) - after 1285) was a powerful duke...
, last tribal leader and pagan priest of the Sudovians/Yotvingians - Skalmantas (Gediminids)Skalmantas (Gediminids)Skalmantas or Skolomend is the name of a possible ancestor of the Gediminid dynasty. In 1975 historian Jerzy Ochmański noted that Zadonshchina, a poem from the end of the 14th century, contains lines in which two sons of Algirdas name their ancestors: "We are two brothers – sons of Algirdas, and...
, presumed ancestor of the Gediminids dynasty