Sudovia as it is popularly known is also called Suvalkija and is one of the regions in Lithuania. The capital of the region is the Marijampole town. The largest town in the region is Kaunas while Marijampole is the second largest town.
A part of Sudovia is in Lithuania, while the other part is in Poland. It occupies a section of southern Lithuania. The part of the region which occurs in Poland is called Suwalki.It is one of the chief cities in Poland occupied Sudovia It is located very close to the Polish border. Sudovia constitutes one of the smallest ethnographic zones of Lithuania. The population of the region of Sudovia generally use the Sodovian dialect. However, sections of the population of the surrounding regions namely Samogitia, Aukstatija and Lithuania minor also use the Sudovian dialect. The population of the region are believed to be the descendants of the Balts tribe. It belonged to the group of people from East Baltic. Earlier a large part of the region was under the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. It came under Lithuanian control following a treaty with Russia. Sudovia is part of the five ethnographic regions that constitute Lithuania and perhaps the smallest of them.
