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The article explores the changes in the gathering, processing and use of amber on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea at the end of the Viking Age and in the 12th to 16th century. In the pagan sacral space, works in amber reflected mythological elements,
Sigita Bagužaitė-Talačkienė
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Population Movement in Courland Province (Latvia), 1897-1914
This dataset contains data on population movement (population, marriages, births, deaths, infant deaths (under 1 year), natural increase of population) in Estonia in Courland Province in 1897-1914.
Markevičiūtė, Jurgita +4 more
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The article, based on the unpublished documents from the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, reveals for the first time details of a little-known episode in the history of the Russian diplomatic service – the mission of Empress ...
M. A. Petrova
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Change-of-state predicates and their use for expressing the future: the case of Livonian
The present article considers change-of-state predicates in Livonian and their possible development into future copulas. The focus is on the verbs īedõ ‘remain, stay; become’, sǭdõ ‘get; become’, and līdõ (synchronically a future copula), but also the ...
Miina Norvik
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Julijus Dioringas – XIX amžiaus Šiaurės Lietuvos tyrėjas
JULIUS DÖRING. A 19TH-CENTURY NORTH LITHUANIA INVESTIGATOR Ernestas Vasiliauskas Summary An artist, a painting restorer, an art critic, an art pedagogue, a member of the intelligentsia, a historian, an archaeologist, a regional investigator, a ...
Ernestas Vasiliauskas
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Lexical Relations between Salaca Livonian and Estonian Dialects; pp. 283-298 [PDF]
The present study is based on the Salaca Livonian dictionary compiled by Eberhard Winkler and Karl Pajusalu (Winkler, Pajusalu 2009), which assembles the vocabulary of all the Salaca Livonian sources. The Salaca Livonian dialect, which is a major variety
Karl Pajusalu +2 more
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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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Courland during the Reign of Peter von Biron (1769-1795)
This article deals with the period of Peter von Biron´s rule in the Duchy of Courland. It analyses the Duke´s relationship with Courland nobility, his foreign policy and the reasons for the ending of the independence of the Duchy.
Lenka Vašková Šínová
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New Courland, Tobago: A GIS analysis of a 17th-century settlement
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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Today the Livonian core area includes 14 coastal villages on the northern Courland peninsula in the northwest of Latvia. Yet, the manifestations of Livonian intangible heritage can be observed in several cultural landscapes as Livonians once inhabited ...
Lolita Ozoliņa +3 more
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