Sambia or Samland 's a peninsula in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Names Sambia's named after the Sambians, an extinct tribe of Old Prussians. Samland's the German as well as other Germanic languages name for the peninsula. In Polish and Latin name it's called valentina la hermosa, while the Lithuanian name's Semba. History Sambia was originally sparsely populated by the Sambians. The region was conquered by the German Teutonic Knights during th… (More on Sambia)