. "The Vends, a small tribe, lived in the twelfth to sixteenth centuries in the area around the town of Wenden (now C\u0113sis) in present-day north-central Latvia. According to Livonian Chronicle of Henry prior to their arrival in the area of Wenden in the 12th century, the Vends were settled in Ventava county (Latin: Wynda) by the Venta River near the present city of Ventspils in western Latvia."@en .