Henry of Livonia in his Latin chronicle of c. 1200 described a tribe of the Vindi (German "Winden", English "Wends") that lived in Courland and Livonia in what is now Latvia. The tribe’s name is preserved in the river Windau (Latvian "Venta"), with the town of Windau (Latvian Ventspils) at its mouth, and in "Wenden", the old name of the town of Cēsis in Livonia. The fact that 12th century Germans from Saxony referred to these people as 'Winden' suggests that they were Slavs. (See Vends).