Annals of Quedlinburg

Annals of Quedlinburg

The first written instance of the name of Lithuania is in the Annals of Quedlinburg (1009)
Original title	Annales Quedlinburgenses
Language	Latin
Subject	History

The Annals of Quedlinburg (Latin: Annales Quedlinburgenses; German: Quedlinburger Annalen) were written between 1008 and 1030 in the convent of Quedlinburg Abbey. In recent years a consensus has emerged that it is likely that the annalist was a woman.^[1] The annals are mostly dedicated to the history of the Holy Roman Empire; they also contain the first written mention of the name of Lithuania ("Litua"), in a description of an event dated to March 1009. The original document has disappeared, surviving only as a 16th-century copy held in Dresden,^[2] but its contents endure as a scholarly resource.