page_title: Warmia
section_title: Early times
hierarchical_section_title: Warmia / History / Early times
caption_attribution_description: Map of Prussian clans during the 13th century. Areas shaded in grey reached further south than shown on this map. Prussian clans of Galindians, Sudovians, Sasna and Lubavia as well as Kulmerland had become subjected to numerous incursions and conquests by recently arriving Slavs.
context_page_description: Warmia is a historical region in northern and northeastern Poland. Its historic seat and capital was Lidzbark and the largest city is Olsztyn.
  Warmia is currently the core of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The region covers an area of around 4,500 km² and has approximately 350,000 inhabitants. Important landmarks include the Cathedral Hill in Frombork, where Nicolaus Copernicus elaborated the heliocentric theory, the bishops' castles at Olsztyn and Lidzbark, the medieval town of Reszel and the sanctuary in Gietrzwałd, a site of Marian apparitions. Geographically, it is an area of many lakes and lies at the upper Łyna river and on the right bank of Pasłęka, stretching in the northwest to the Vistula Bay. Warmia has a number of architectural monuments ranging from Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque to Classicism, Historicism and Art Nouveau.
  Warmia is part of a larger historical region called Prussia, which was inhabited by the Old Prussians and later on was populated mainly by Germans and Poles.
context_section_description: By the early Middle Ages the Warmians, an Old Prussian tribe, inhabited the area.
caption: Warmians and other Prussian tribes during the 13th century
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