Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Sambians were one of the Prussian clans. They inhabited the peninsula of Sambia, north of the city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). Sambians were located in a coastal territory rich in amber and engaged in trade early on (see Amber Road). Therefore, they established contacts with foreign nations before any other Prussians. However, as all other Prussians they were conquered by the Teutonic Knights, and exposed to assimilation and Germanization, became extinct sometime in the 17th century. Engaged in amber trade, Sambia was the richest and most densily populated region of Prussia. It provides a wealth of artifacts from the Bronze Age, including imported goods from the Roman Empire. Sambians, unlike other Prussians, did not cremate their dead.