LIVONIA COURLAND ESTONIA RIGA ,1894 Antique Colour Map

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Courland (Latvian: Kurzeme; German: Kurland; Latin: Curonia / Couronia; Lithuanian: Kuršas; Polish: Kurlandia) is an historical Baltic province now part of Latvia. It formed a province of the Teutonic Order in Livonia (ca. 1200–1560), then became a duchy within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1560–1795), and a province of Imperial Russia (1795–1918). It lies between 55° 45? and 57° 45? North and 21° and 27° East. Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northeastern Europe. Estonia has land borders with Baltic country Latvia (339 km) to the south and Russia (229 km) to the east. It is separated from Finland in the north by the narrow Gulf of Finland and from Sweden in the west by the middle part of the Baltic Sea. Its coastline is 3794 km long. Livonia (Latvian: Livonija; Estonian: Liivimaa; German: Livland; Swedish: Livland; Polish: Inflanty; Russian: Lifljandija; Lithuanian: Livonija ) once was the land of the Finnic Livonians, but came in the Middle Ages to designate a much broader territory controlled by the Livonian Order on the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea in present-day Latvia and Estonia. Its frontiers are the Gulf of Riga and the Gulf of Finland in the north-west, Lake Peipus and Russia to the east, and Lithuania to the south. Livonia was inhabited by various Baltic and Finnic peoples ruled by an upper class of Baltic Germans. Over the course of time some nobles were polonized into the Polish szlachta or russified into the Russian Dvoryanstvo. SHOWS SHIPPING LANES

1890s Wood Engraving, Antique Map

Approximate Overall Size: 12 X 9 1/2 inches

CONDITION: Book Plate Map - Excellent Condition. Folded. As Scanned. German Text. Beautiful with excellent detail. Map Print is Blank on the back