Baltic Slavic piracy

Baltic Slavic piracy
	; Map showing Slavic raids on Scandinavia in the mid-12th century
Date	8th century – 1274
Location	Baltic Sea, Scandinavian coasts, German coasts
Result	Thousands of Scandinavians and Germans enslaved annually and traded in the Wendish and Baltic markets; Devastation of the Scandinavian and German coastal cities; Cessation of piracy after the Wendish and Prussian crusades;
Belligerents
Wends Obotrite Confederacy Obotrites; Wagrians; ; Liutizian Confederacy; Wendish allies: Duchy of Pomerania; ; Baltic pagans Prussians Bartians; Galindians; Natangians; Nadruvians; Pomesanians; Pogesanians; Sambians; Warmians; ; Curonians; Yotvingians (Sudovians); Skalvians; Baltic allies: Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Duchy of Pomerania; (During Prussian crusade) ;	Kingdom of Denmark; Kingdom of Sweden; Kingdom of Norway; Holy Roman Empire Allies: Teutonic Order; Order of Dobrin; Duchy of Masovia; Kingdom of Poland; Duchy of Pomerania (turned); Duchy of Pomerelia; Duchy of Gdańsk; Duchy of Świecie and Lubiszewo; Duchy of Lubiszewo; Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia; Order of Calatrava; (During Wendish and Prussian crusades) ;

Pirates of Baltic Slavic origin carried out military campaigns in the Baltic Sea from the 8th to 13th centuries. The Slavic pirates were most active from c. 1050, with reputation for bringing terror to the Scandinavian coasts for over a hundred years.