Vassal of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, then of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1561–1629
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with its major subdivisions after the 1618 Truce of Deulino, superimposed on present-day national borders. Livonia here is coloured dark grey, upper-right, over modern Estonia and Latvia. Swedish Estonia is coloured green.[1]
The Duchy of Livonia[2] (Polish: Księstwo Zadźwińskie or Księstwo Inflanckie;[3] Lithuanian: Livonijos kunigaikštystė; Latin: Ducatus Ultradunensis; Estonian: Liivimaa hertsogkond; Latvian: Pārdaugavas hercogiste; German: Herzogtum Livland), also referred to as Polish Livonia or Livonia (Polish: Inflanty[4]), was a territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that existed from 1561 to 1621. It corresponds to the present-day areas of northern Latvia and southern Estonia.
^Although colored green, the island of Oesel was not part of Sweden until 1645 and belonged to Danish Crown. It was ceded to Sweden along with Gotland after signing the Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645).
^Brand, Hanno (2005). Trade, Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange: Continuity and Change in the North. p. 17. ISBN 90-6550-881-3.
^Bojtár, Endre (1999). Foreword to the Past. p. 176. ISBN 978-963-9116-42-9.
^Plakans, Andrejs (2011). A Concise History of the Baltic States. Cambridge University Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-521-54155-8.
The DuchyofLivonia (Polish: Księstwo Zadźwińskie or Księstwo Inflanckie; Lithuanian: Livonijos kunigaikštystė; Latin: Ducatus Ultradunensis; Estonian:...
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...
alternatively the Grand DuchyofLivonia, was the name of a short-lived state during World War I that was proclaimed by leaders of the local Baltic German...
of the major part of the Polish-Lithuanian DuchyofLivonia during the 1600–1629 Polish-Swedish War. Parts ofLivonia and the city of Riga were under Swedish...
In 1346 the Livonian Order bought the Duchyof Estonia from Denmark. Throughout the existence of medieval Livonia there was a constant struggle over supremacy...
Semigalii) was a duchy in the Baltic region, then known as Livonia, that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a nominally vassal state of the Grand Duchyof Lithuania...
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of Ingria and northern Livonia while retaining the Duchyof Estonia. By the mid-16th century, economically prosperous Old Livonia had become a region organised...
Knights ofLivonia signed the Treaty of Stensby with the Kingdom of Denmark. Under this agreement, Denmark would support the expansion ambitions of the order...
from the DuchyofLivonia and Inflanty Voivodeship. It traced its origins via Palemonids to Polemon II of Pontus.[citation needed] Families of the nobility...
August 1583 saw most of the territory of Old Livonia (Duchyof Courland and Semigallia and DuchyofLivonia) under the control of the Polish–Lithuanian...
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Polish Livonia may refer to: DuchyofLivonia, a dominion of the Grand Duchyof Lithuania and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Inflanty Voivodeship...
elements of the coats of arms of Polish and Swedish Livonia and of the Duchyof Courland and Semigallia. Thus, the coat of arms combines symbols of Latvian...
conquest of most ofLivonia in the 1620s, the sejmiks were moved to Dyneburg. The nobility of the County of Piltyń, formally equal to the nobility of the Commonwealth...
resulted in the reintegration of Polotsk to Lithuania and the restoration of control of the DuchyofLivonia. The rule of Lithuania by the Gediminid–Jagiellonian...
of the Livonian Order. Livonia and south-eastern Latvia were claimed by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, while Curonia became an independent duchy...
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and Livonia were united to form the Republic of Latvia on 18 November 1918. The governorate was bounded in the north by the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Riga...
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