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  • (c. 1,100,000 speakers). The domination of Estonia after the Northern Crusades ... are Estonia's best known and most translated writers. ...
    15 KB (2,152 words) - 23:59, 18 March 2022
  • Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic ... Due to its strategic location, Estonia was dominated by foreign powers ...
    40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
  • Stockholm area, southwestern Finland and Estonia. The Western and Eastern ... *Estonia *Finland *Germany *Latvia *Lithuania *Poland *Russia ...
    25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
  • Latvia shares land borders with Estonia to the north and Lithuania ... Vikings to the Greeks" mentioned in ancient chronicles stretched from ...
    34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
  • In Finland the sauna is an ancient custom. It was considered to be ... In Finland, Estonia and Russia sauna-going plays a central social ...
    15 KB (2,539 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
  • Other chapters describe ancient creation myths, echoes of beliefs ... (The Kalevala, or old Karelian poems about ancient times of the Finnish people ...
    26 KB (4,103 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
  • the ruler. Examples of such states were ancient Egypt, the pagan Roman Empire ... State religions were known in ancient times in the empires of Egypt ...
    28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
  • USSR (Belarus, Ukraine). Similarly, in Estonia, the Soviet-era immigrants ... Russian-language schooling is also available in Latvia, Estonia and ...
    41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
  • of Spain, France, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia, and the greater part of ... population unit ranging from the Urals and Estonia to the Black sea, a population ...
    24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
  • (labeled muskeg), Scotland, Denmark, Estonia (20 percent boglands), Finland ... the acidic water. Some bogs have preserved ancient oak logs useful in dendrochronology ...
    13 KB (1,940 words) - 00:02, 12 January 2023
  • Ancient Novgorod rose to a political force partially due to its ideal ... Novgorod was among the first cities to be formed in ancient Russia ...
    19 KB (2,901 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
  • was then a province of Russia, now in Estonia. His father, Theodosius ... of Caesarea entitled The History of Ancient Christian Literature. A ...
    19 KB (2,919 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
  • is first amongst equals, continuing the ancient practice of the church, ... This doctrine is claimed by the ancient Christian Churches (the Roman ...
    31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
  • in folklore and the mythology of the ancient Teutonic tribes of Northern ... Himmler became increasingly fascinated with ancient German lore and ...
    22 KB (3,391 words) - 22:49, 3 February 2022
  • 350px|The slow spread of literacy in the ancient world. The dark blue areas ... all of modern Sweden, Finland, and Estonia) enforced literacy on the ...
    24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
  • empire in the Baltic including Finland, Estonia, and parts of Russia, Poland ... notion of a past Swedish Golden Age, whose ancient Nordic ideals had supposedly ...
    18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
  • the Soviet claim to Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia. Lithuania joined ... Like other countries in the region, such as [Estonia]] and Latvia ...
    40 KB (5,565 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
  • patterns of rocks on the open ground. This ancient system was used by [[Indigenous ... in Churchill after having sailed from Estonia loaded with bags of fertilizer ...
    41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
  • the great temple towers (the ziggurats) of ancient Sumer (which many believe ... Biblical narrative is a reaction to the ancient Mesopotamian system of beliefs ...
    34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
  • Social institutions similar to serfdom were known in ancient times ... societies of the Byzantine Empire, Iran, ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt (Sixth ...
    31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023

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