Bartians, together with the Warmians only, were conquered by the Teutonic nights from 1238 to 1240 and the knights in Barta built major castles in two different towns.
The Bartians, together with the Warmians and the Natangians, were conquered by the Teutonic Knights 1238-1240. In Barta the Knights built major castles in Bartenstein and Roel. Bartoszyce (pronounced Barto-shitse [bartts (listen), German: Bartenstein, [batntan (listen); Lithuanian: Barstynas) is a town on the yna River in northeastern Poland, with 23,482 inhabitants (as of 2019). Reszel [rl (listen) (German: Roel; Prussian: Resel or Resl) is a town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northeastern Poland. 
