Oksywie culture

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The Oksywie Culture was a culture which existed in the area of Oxhoeft (now Oksywie Northern Poland), from the 2nd century BC to the early 1st century AD. It was closely related to the Przeworsk culture and with the arrival of Goths the Wielbark/ Willenberg culture developed in the area. There was peacefull co-existense between native Aesti-Prussians and Goths. Cultural interchange between the groups is recorded by numerous archaological finds and there were no struggles or wars between them. The historical finds are named after the neighbourhood of Oksywie, nowadays part of the city of Gdynia, previously Oxhoeft near Gdingen in Prussia.

This event corresponds to Jordanes' account of the migration of the Goths from Scandza (Scandinavia), when they under their king Berig defeated the Rugians and the Vandals and drove many of them from their settlements (note that the Vandals are generally associated with the Przeworsk culture). Cassiodorus, the chancellor of Gothic king Theoderic the Great and after him Jordanes wrote about the Aesti-Prussians Pacatum hominum genus omnino - generally a peaceful group of people.