Vistula Veneti

The Vistula Veneti, also called Baltic Veneti were an Indo-European peoples that inhabited the lands of central Europe east of the Vistula River and the Bay of Gdańsk. First mentioned in the 1st century AD by ancient Roman geographers who differentiated a group of peoples whose manner and language differed from that of the neighbouring Germanic and Sarmatian tribes. In the 6th century AD, Byzantine historians described the Veneti as the ancestors of the Slavs who during the second phase of the Migration Period crossed the northern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire.