Search results for "Ancient Estonia" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- (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 (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- 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
- 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
- in folklore and the mythology of the ancient Teutonic tribes of Northern ... Himmler became increasingly fascinated with ancient German lore and ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- 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
- notably in Russia, Ireland, Finland, Estonia, Scotland, Poland, northern ... of peat can also be used to reconstruct ancient ecologies by examining the ...19 KB (2,935 words) - 17:10, 26 March 2023
- long been suspected as the remnant of an ancient impact crater, but no evidence ... docked in Churchill having sailed from Estonia loaded with bags of fertilizer ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- In ancient Egypt, midwifery was a recognized female occupation, as ... was a little easier - in the Duchy of Estonia in Imperial Russia, Professor ...32 KB (4,799 words) - 10:57, 10 March 2023
- rather as a reformed continuation of the ancient "English church." ... of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and Lithuania. In 2001 ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 18:08, 27 July 2023
- that shaped the development of the ancient world.Nigel Bagnall, The ... the leadership and the invasing force. In ancient times, this often meant ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- " which by 1221 extended control from Estonia in the east to Norway in ... Halland, Gotland, the last parts of Danish Estonia, and several provinces in ...38 KB (5,763 words) - 21:28, 5 March 2024
- means "past-words-made" or "way of ancient words." The Norse poets tended to break up their verses into stanzas from two to eight ...24 KB (3,773 words) - 20:35, 30 November 2023
- scale raids, ambushes and attacks. In ancient times these actions were ... as the "Forest Brothers," in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania participated ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- peoples, as well as with remnants of the ancient Greek colonies in the Crimea ... * Sakhalin, Kaliningrad, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
- In the ancient world and parts of medieval Europe there were taxes ... and operational real estate markets. Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic ...37 KB (5,745 words) - 00:22, 2 December 2022
- The Czech Republic, along with Estonia, has one of the least religious populations in the EU, with over 50 percent declaring themselves to have ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- Land value taxation has ancient roots, tracing back to after the introduction ... is used in Taiwan, Singapore, and Estonia. Many more countries have ...37 KB (5,677 words) - 23:33, 3 July 2023
- Popular government in Sweden rests upon ancient traditions. The Swedish ... Battle Group to which Norway, Finland, and Estonia will also contribute. The ...40 KB (5,890 words) - 20:41, 17 March 2024
- in Latvia and Lithuania, but most of Estonia's Jews were evacuated ... able to defend themselves. Drawing in the ancient Jewish concept of mending ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- to the east and Norway to the north while Estonia lies to its south. Finland ... There are also museums and examples of ancient architecture remaining from ...43 KB (6,190 words) - 19:49, 26 March 2024
- The city is named after the river (ancient гра́д Моско́в ... suggests that the source of the name is an ancient Finnic language, in which ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland ... The invading Mongols accelerated the fragmentation of the Ancient ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- Thus, the three Baltic republics - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - ... and democratic systems is blamed on ancient tribal animosities, congenital ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
