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, 2021 The article describes the evolution of political activities of Otto Hermann von der Howen (1740–1806). He was one of the most influential politicians in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia in the last decades of the state’s existence. When beginning his
Janicki, Arkadiusz
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Professor G. F. Parrot in the struggle for the development of primary education in Ostsee provinces [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2021 The article analyses activities of Georg Friedrich Parrot, professor at the University of Dorpat, related to the emergence and development of primary schools in Ostsee provinces of the Russian Empire.
Yulia Gracheva
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MAGNUS IN MOSCOW; pp. 67–85 [PDF]
Acta Historica Tallinnensia, 2011 This article provides an overview of the negotiations conducted in Moscow in June 1570 between Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Duke Magnus von Holstein, the aspiring ruler of Livonia who had acquired the Bishoprics of Ãsel-Wiek and Courland some time before.
Andres Adamson
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Yiddish varieties in the Livonian contact area
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022 The aim of this article is to discuss the Yiddish varieties of Courland and Estonia in the general context of the co-territorial languages: Baltic German, Latvian, Livonian, and Estonian. As a rule, discussion of Yiddish in the region is mostly based on
Anna Verschik
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Reexamining Latvian lake names ending in -eris, -ēris, and -ieris [PDF]
Linguistica UralicaThis article discusses Latvian lake names ending in -eris, -Äris, and -ieris as names of possible Finnic origin. The article is an inventory of limnonyms â names of lakes and ponds â ending in -eris, -Äris, and -ieris, i.e.
Anta Trumpa, Valts Ernštreits
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Evidentiality in Livonian; pp. 41-54 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2012 The study focuses on dedicated grammatical evidentials and Âevidentiality strategies in the two main dialects of Livonian â Courland and Salaca Livonian.
Petar Kehayov +2 more
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, 2022 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 ...
Kalle, R. +6 more
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Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2021 The article provides for an overview of foreigners’ encounter with the Russian language in the 16th — early 18th centuries; it analyzes, for this purpose, the German-Russian dictionary-phrasebook from the diary “Journey through Brandenburg, Prussia ...
Yulia V. Kolpakova, Maksim Y. Kolpakov
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, 2022 Straipsnyje aptariami Didžiojo Šiaurės karo (1700–1721) įvykiai, susiję su Kuršo kunigaikštyste. Daugiausia dėmesio skirta karo veiksmams konkrečiame regione – Kuršo kunigaikštystės ir Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės pasienyje, vykusiems nuo švedų ...
Jakovļeva, Mārīte
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Weather Heritage, Scientific Networks and Weather Memory in Seventeenth Century Estonia, Livonia and Curonia [PDF]
Acta Historica TallinnensiaThis article examines how the climate crises of the seventeenth century shaped forms of weather heritage and weather memory in Livonia and Courland, drawing on religious, economic and early scientific literature.
Ulrike Plath
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