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    The Governorate of Livonia, also known as the Livonia Governorate, was a province (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire...
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    Livonia or in earlier records Livland, is a historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It is named after the Livonians, who lived on the...
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    following the Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia in 1710, formed Riga Governorate. Formally, it was ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad in 1721, together...
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    leader Jaan Teemant to flee abroad. The governorate gained more territories from the Governorate of Livonia and was granted autonomy on 12 April 1917...
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    which amalgamated the former Russian Governorate of Estonia and the northern portion of the Governorate of Livonia. After the October Revolution later...
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    Reval Governorate and Riga Governorate were each at the time subdivided into one province only: the province of Estonia and the province of Livonia, respectively...
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    Governorate of Livonia; west by the Baltic Sea; south by the Vilna Governorate and Prussia and east by the Vitebsk Governorate and Minsk Governorate....
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    Knights of Livonia signed the Treaty of Stensby with the Kingdom of Denmark. Under this agreement, Denmark would support the expansion ambitions of the order...
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  • century for Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. About the same time similar laws has been enacted in all Baltic governorates and Duchy of Courland...
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    Russian language in Latvia (category Languages of Latvia)
    8%) speakers of "Great Russian" in the Governorate of Courland and 68,124 (5.2%) speakers of "Great Russian" in the Governorate of Livonia, making Russian...
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    Vidzeme (redirect from Livonia (Latvia))
    historic Governorate of Livonia is also larger than Vidzeme, since it corresponds roughly to Swedish Livonia. In ancient times, the territory of Vidzeme...
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    in the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire. He was one of the most important persons of the Estonian national awakening in the second half of the 19th...
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    Baltische Landeswehr (category Governorate of Livonia)
    Baltische Landeswehr ("Baltic Territorial Army") was the name of the unified armed forces of Couronian and Livonian nobility from 7 December 1918 to 3 July...
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    Baltic Germans (category Demographics of Estonia)
    governorates of the Russian Empire: Courland Governorate, Governorate of Livonia and Governorate of Estonia. The Baltic provinces remained autonomous and were self-governed...
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    the south, and Governorate of Livonia in the west. In terms of modern administrative division of Russia, the area of the governorate is currently split...
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    Coat of arms of Riga is one of the official symbols of Riga, along with the flag of Riga. The blazon on the greater, middle, and lesser coat of arms of Riga...
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  • constituency of the Saeima in Latvia Duchy of Livonia (1561–1621), a territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Governorate of Livonia (1721–1918)...
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    Juhan Aavik (category Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class III)
    Juhan Aavik (29 January 1884, in Holstre, Kreis Fellin, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 26 November 1982, in Stockholm, Sweden) was an Estonian...
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    Courland, and by the end of February 1918 the territories of the former Russian Governorate of Livonia and Autonomous Governorate of Estonia that had declared...
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    Estonia in 1816, in the Courland Governorate in 1817 and in the Governorate of Livonia in 1819 (and in the rest of the Russian Empire in 1861). Still...
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  • Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven (category Deputy Chief of Staff of the Federal Armed Forces)
    (Baron: Livonia, Courland 1198; Master of the Teutonic Order 1485, Gotha Register 1896, 1934 1942). He was born in Arensburg, Governorate of Livonia (now...
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    Peter established the Riga Governorate, and after various administrative and territorial reforms, Governorate of Livonia was finally established in 1796...
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  • orchestra Saaremaa, an island of Estonia, known as Ösel in German and Swedish Kreis Ösel, a subdivision of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire This...
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    and consumer of kümmel. Kümmel's popularity grew in the early 19th century, being produced by 1823 in Allasch, the Governorate of Livonia in Russian Empire...
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    Erhard Schmidt (category Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany)
    influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. Schmidt was born in Tartu (German: Dorpat), in the Governorate of Livonia (now Estonia). His...
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    proportions Flag of the historical Governorate of Livonia, one of the Baltic governorates of the former Russian Empire Flag of Latvia, on which this flag was...
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    994 (75.1%) speakers of Latvian in the Governorate of Courland and 563,829 (43.4%) speakers of Latvian in the Governorate of Livonia, making Latvian-speakers...
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    Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (category People from the Governorate of Livonia)
    Empire, the son of a German musician and a Baltic German mother. Richter lived a large part of his early life in the Governorate of Livonia, and studied...
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    Emil Lenz (category People from the Governorate of Livonia)
    was born in Dorpat (nowadays Tartu, Estonia), at that time in the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire. After completing his secondary education...
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    town of Wenden (now Cēsis) in present-day north-central Latvia. According to Livonian Chronicle of Henry prior to their arrival in the area of Wenden...
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