Diverse in Local, Overlapping in Official Medical Botany: Critical Analysis of Medicinal Plant Records From the Historic Regions of Livonia and Courland in Northeast Europe, 1829–1895 [PDF]
Works on historical ethnobotany can help shed light on past plant uses and humankind’s relationships with the environment. We analyzed medicinal plant uses from the historical regions of Livonia and Courland in Northeast Europe based on three studies ...
Renata Sõukand +2 more
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The Relationship Between Salaca Livonian and Courland Livonian Dialects [PDF]
The article examines the relationship between the two prominent forms of Livonian: Salaca Livonian, spoken on the territory of historical Livonia, and Courland Livonian.
Karl Pajusalu
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Genome‐environment association analyses reveal geographically restricted adaptive divergence across the range of the widespread Eurasian carnivore Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) [PDF]
Abstract Local adaptations to the environment are an important aspect of the diversity of a species and their discovery, description and quantification has important implications for the fields of taxonomy, evolutionary and conservation biology. In this study, we scan genomes from several populations across the distributional range of the Eurasian lynx,
Enrico Bazzicalupo +11 more
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Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Galicia in Northeastern Europe, 1805-1905 [PDF]
Background: Historical ethnobotanical data can provide valuable information about past human-nature relationships as well as serve as a basis for diachronic analysis.
Martin Anegg +3 more
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Provincial Administration and Local Nobility in Courland in the Middle of the 19th Century
In the article, on the example of the conflict of the Courland governor P.A. Valuev with the Baltic nobility, happened in 1857, the legal status of the Baltic nobility in the Russian Empire is considered.
N. A. Mogilevskii
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The l-cases in Courland Livonian [PDF]
Courland Livonian is the only Finnic language where the habitive expressions of giving, taking, and having do not use the so-called l-cases, but instead the dative, the elative or a postposition. As the l-cases mostly only occur in a number of fossilised
Rogier Blokland, Nobufumi Inaba
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The Development of Peasants’ Reading Habits in Courland and Livonia in the 18th Century* [PDF]
The article explores the development of peasants’ reading habits over the 18th century in the Latvian-inhabited Lutheran regions of Russia’s Baltic provinces Courland/Kurzeme and Latvian Livonia/Vidzeme.
Pauls Daija
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A German translation of the Third Lithuanian Statute (TLS) is preserved in a manuscript form in the Latvian State Historical Archive (LVVA), within the collections of the Courland Society of Literature and Art and the Courland Province Museum (F. 5759).
Simona Glazauskaitė
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Literature of Revolution in the Newspaper of the Duchy of Courland: Mitauische Zeitung (1789–1795) [PDF]
The break in intelligibility caused by exceptional events encourages interpretation, attempts at explanation, the search for causes, and the projection of consequences, thus creating relevant literature.
Simona Sofija Valke
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Introduction. This article is devoted to the study of private subjects of the Courland crisis of the turn of 1726–1727, which united different states that had geopolitical interests in the Baltic region.
Marina Nakishova
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