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The Balts or Baltic peoples are a group of peoples inhabiting the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea who speak Baltic languages. Among the Baltic peoples are modern-day Lithuanians and Latvians — all East Balts — as well as the Old Prussians, Curonians, Sudovians, Skalvians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the West Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.
At the end of the war, a wave of Baltic persons, fearing the return of Soviet rule, fled Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania for Germany. Others relocated to Sweden and other European countries. When the Allies defeated the Germans, most of the refugees in Germany ended up in displaced persons camps. Although they did not have complete freedom, the ...
Other articles where history of Baltic States is discussed: Baltic states: Prehistory to the 18th century: In prehistoric times Finno-Ugric tribes inhabited a long belt stretching across northern Europe from the Urals through northern Scandinavia, reaching south to present-day Latvia. The predecessors of the modern Balts bordered them along a belt to the south, stretching west…
The Baltic Finnic peoples, often simply referred to as the Finnic peoples, [a] are the peoples inhabiting the Baltic Sea region in Northern and Eastern Europe who speak Finnic languages. They include the Finns, Estonians (including Võros and Setos ), Karelians (including Ludes and Livvi ), Veps, Izhorians, Votes, and Livonians.
Background. This is a list of the ancient Baltic peoples and tribes. They spoke the Baltic languages (members of the broader Balto-Slavic), a branch of the Indo-European language family, which was originally spoken by tribes living in area east of Jutland peninsula, southern Baltic Sea coast in the west and Moscow, Oka and Volga rivers basins in the east, to the northwest of the Eurasian steppe.
Baltic people in the United Kingdom. Baltic British. Total population. Baltic-born residents. 108,711 Lithuanian-born (2011 census) 61,441 Latvian-born (2011 census) Regions with significant populations. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Kingston upon Hull, York, Kings Lynn and Glasgow. Languages.
The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively or as a second language by a population of about 6.5–7.0 million people [1] [2] mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Europe. Together with the Slavic languages, they form the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European family.
