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    Livonia in Europe, 1190 AD. Beginning in the 12th century CE, Livonia became a target for economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans, particularly for the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order.

  2. The Grand Dukedom of Pomerania and Livonia is an idyllic micronation situated in lands that were once part of the ancient territories of the German Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Poland, Duchy of Lithuania and the ancient Duchies of Livonia and Courland.

  3. Map of Scandinavia AD 1721. Sweden's entry into the Thirty Years' War in 1630 was pivotal in ensuring the survival of widespread Protestantism in northern Europe. Queen Christina of Sweden also won full control of Estonia and Livonia, as well as Nearer-Pomerania on the German Baltic coast.

  4. The map is the first cartographic, approximately accurate representation of Pomerania, based on surveys and mathematical calculations. A kind of 'land register', it presents a unique collection of contemporary knowledge about the country at the time: coats of arms from 353 noble families, views of 49 cities, the family tree of ruling classes ...

  5. The Kingdom of Livonia was a nominal state in what is now the territory of Estonia and Latvia. Russian tsar Ivan IV declared the establishment of the kingdom during the Livonian War of 1558–1583, but it never functioned properly as a polity .

  6. Oct 13, 2018 · This article tells the tale of the Teutonic Knights in medieval Livonia – lands that roughly correspond to today’s republics of Estonia and Latvia. We find it incredibly appropriate that our musem inhabits a house that was built in Tallinn during the era when the city ruled by the members of a military order.

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  8. Fig. 9 is presented three maps on one sheet: Pomerania (the Baltic coastline between Rostock in Germany and the Polish port of Gdansk), Livonia (now Kalingrad, Lithuania and Latvia), and...

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