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New Courland, Tobago: A GIS analysis of a 17th-century settlement [PDF]
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Caribbean island of Tobago was contested by several European powers. Among them was an unlikely colonizer, the small Duchy of Courland, located in the western part of modern-day Latvia, which established the New ...
Amanda Sumner
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Yiddish varieties in the Livonian contact area
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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Evidentiality in Livonian; pp. 41-54 [PDF]
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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Number of Cattle in Courland Province (Latvia), 1897-1914
This dataset contains data on number of cattle in Courland Province (within the current borders Latvia) in 1897-1914. Dataset "Number of Cattle in Courland Province (Latvia), 1897-1914" was published implementing project "Historical Sociology of Modern ...
Markevičiūtė, Jurgita +4 more
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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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Liivi- ja Kuramaa aadlike kirjanduslik enesekuvand XVII sajandi pilkeluules
The identity of Livonian and Courlandian nobility in 17th-century satirical poetry The article examines the formation of the identity of 17th-century Livonian and Courlandian nobility as reflected in their predominantly unpublished satirical poems ...
Kristi Viiding, Viktors Dāboliņš
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Weather Heritage, Scientific Networks and Weather Memory in Seventeenth Century Estonia, Livonia and Curonia [PDF]
This 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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Volume and Value of Crop Production in Courland Province (Latvia), 1897-1914
This dataset contains data on number of volume and value of crop production in Courland Province (within the current borders Latvia) in 1897-1914. Dataset "Volume and Value of Crop Production in Courland Province (Latvia), 1897-1914" was published ...
Markevičiūtė, Jurgita +4 more
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The terms “self-determination,” “democracy,” and “national autonomy” were omnipresent after the end of World War I. Yet it was not only actors with revolutionary or nation-state agendas who used these popular slogans.
Thomas Rettig
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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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