Subject: Re: Scandinavia, language trivia<br/>
Date: Feb 24, 2003 @ 23:14<br/>
Author: Karolis B. &lt;kbajoraz@yahoo.com&gt; (&quot;Karolis B. &lt;kbajoraz@...&gt;&quot; &lt;kbajoraz@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1165574651">Which brings us to a similiar situation: the Baltic Countries. I <br/>
don&#39;t suppose anyone has any other idea of Baltic Countries than <br/>
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. But in ethnical view, the Balts are <br/>
Lithuanians and Latvians (also Prussians, which are not found as pure <br/>
elements anymore). Estonians are related to Fins. And there is no <br/>
geographic reason to join these countries. Even historical background <br/>
is different. While Estonia and Latvia were joined to Livonia by <br/>
German Teutonic knights and later belonged to all sorts of north <br/>
European countries, and also while Prussians were held by Teutonic <br/>
Knights, Lithuania remained free of foreign occupation and formed its <br/>
own state. I guess the unifying moment was when the three countries <br/>
adjacent to each other and of similiar size declared independent <br/>
republics from the ashes of Russian Empire at about the same time. I <br/>
also hear that before WW&#39;s the Baltic Countries used to mean <br/>
everything found on the eastern shore of the Baltic (I guess <br/>
everything non-Scandnavian). So, as you see, these situations are <br/>
rather complex :)<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Unfortunately there are no Swedish Estonians left on Dagö Is. <br/>
 </span></blockquote>anymore.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Everybody evacuated back to Sweden at World War II. Only some place <br/>
 </span></blockquote>names<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; remains after all those centuries with Swedish colonisation of the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Baltic<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; countries.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Jan<br/>
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