Home > Places > Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Nations > CIS and Baltic Political Geography

Research topic: Baltic provinces

Related pictures

Rate these pictures

Baltic provinces

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Baltic provinces historic regions of Courland , Livonia , Estonia , and Ingermanland bordering on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. They were conquered by Russia from Sweden in the 18th cent. and made into provinces. Ingermanland was included into Russia proper, and the three independent republics of Estonia, Latvia , and Lithuania were established in 1918. See also Baltic states . Author not available, BALTIC PROVINCES. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Acado-Baltic Province
Acado-Baltic Province See ATLANTIC PROVINCE . Read more

Baltic States
...situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea . The name has sometimes been used...independent states in 1917 from the Baltic provinces of Russia, the city of Kovno, and part...aid of German and Allied forces, the Baltic states repelled a Bolshevik invasion...overrun by German forces in 1941. ... Read more

Rate these entries | See all related entries

Facts and information from other sites

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Wagner and Wagnerism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces: Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult.(Book review) ; ...Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Provinces: Reception, Enthusiasm, Cult...Salmi's work on Wagnerism in the Baltic region documents the phenomenon...supplements the music histories of Baltic countries with a wealth of...that Wagner's relationship to Baltic Europe was not ... Read more
	A Baltic province's story, in one man's life: German Konigsberg, later Russian Kaliningrad, would be isolated again in the EU's expansion east by 2004.(World) ; ...was cut off from the rest of Russia by the newly independent Baltic state of Lithuania and by Westward-leaning Poland. Those two...trade and tourism, so we can become fully part of Europe. The Baltic Republican Party, a group that favors semi-independence for... Read more
	Mare Balticum: The Baltic--Two Thousand Years.(Review) ; ...the interesting discussion of the changing face of the Baltic is lost to non-specialists. On the whole, the book...the map entitled Mediterranean Connections with the Baltic which shows part of Europe in the times of Roman Empire...Tjeck Republik instead of Czech Republic on the map of Baltic Geophysics ... Read more
	TRADE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BALTIC STATES FOR CANADIAN BUSINESSMEN ; On 26 April 2006, the Baltic Business Seminar will be held in Halifax, the capital of Canada's province...present information about business and investment opportunities in the Baltic states, and to promote the bilateral commercial cooperation. The Latvian... Read more
	Baltic Pipeline work to get under way. (International Highlights).(Brief Article) ; Construction of Phase 2 of the Baltic Pipeline System will begin soon. Builders plan to lay 245 km of pipe on the Yaroslavl-Kirishi...December. The system was designed to transport oil from the Timan-Pechora and Western Siberian oil provinces. Read more
	Denmark's Old Baltic Outpost ; ...was once vital to Denmark's command of the entry to the Baltic Sea. TINY DENMARK, ABOUT THE SIZE OF Connecticut and Massachusetts...to home and the island of Bornholm to the east in the Baltic Sea. But, Oh yes, there's even one more-tiny Christians...the time to visit Bornholm, the so-called Pearl of the ... Read more
	Clinton, Baltic leaders sign partnership pact ; ...affirming U.S. support for membership by Baltic nations in NATO and other Western political...Brazauskas, signed the pact. The U.S.-Baltics Charter of Partnership commits the administration to back Baltic efforts to join NATO and establishes a... Read more
	EU/BALTIC: BARNIER SAYS NORTHERN DIMENSION WILL NEED REVISING.(Brief Article) ; ...aid to clear up marine pollution in the Baltic Sea and Russian nuclear waste.The EU-Russia...co-operation and stimulate development in the Baltic region. The Northern Dimension Action Plan involves co-operation between the EU and Baltic and Scandinavian countries in the fields... Read more
	Baltic Pearl ; ...best till last -- according to Scandinavian myth. And the last to appear was Bornholm -- at least if you ask the people of this Baltic island off the Southern tip of Sweden. The Danish island Bornholm has many things in common with the southeastern part of Skne... Read more
	Baltic states welcome insight into economic regeneration.(News) ; ...visit formed part of a five-day study visit organised for the three Baltic representatives and follows the visit which eight representatives from Northern Ireland made to the Baltic States in November. A spokeswoman for the programme said the visitors... Read more

For more facts and information, see all related premium articles

Online videos

SHAPE: Vigilia Pretium Libertatis (Part 1 of 2)

Add/Rate Videos

Free newspaper and magazine articles

	LATVIA: BALTIC ASSEMBLY CALLS FOR JOINT EU-REFERENDUM.(Brief Article)
	The Teutonic knights and Baltic chivalry.
	LATVIA: TRADE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BALTIC STATES FOR CANADIAN BUSINESSMEN.

For Students and teachers!

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Search hundreds of published sources: