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Dniepr Balts
The
Dniepr
Balts
, a
hypothetical
subgroup
of the
Eastern Balts
, are
Baltic tribes
that lived near the
Dnieper River
in the
Bronze Age
, and later were
assimilated
by the
Slavs
.
The Dniepr Balts were
studied
by the
archaeologist
Marija Gimbutas
,
Lithuanian
linguist
Kazimieras Būga
, and by
Russian scientists
Vladimir Toporov
, O.Trubachev, who analysed
hydronyms
at the higher
Dnieper
basin
. They have found nearly
800
hydronyms of
possibly
Baltic
origin
.