Baltic Provinces
Related Category: CIS and Baltic Political Geography
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.
