Tags: Ethnic Group.
Natangians or Notangians (Prussian: Notangi German: Natanger; Lithuanian: Notangai) was one of the eleven clans of Prussian people who lived in Natangia an area that is now mostly in the Russian enclave Kaliningrad Oblast (East Prussia before 1945).In the 13th century when the Teutonic Knights began their crusade against the Prussians some 15000 people might have lived in the area between the rivers identified by the Knights as Pregel (now Pregolya) and Alle (now Łyna).