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In the course of their 700-year history, Baltic German families had ethnic German roots, but also intermarried extensively with Estonians, Livonians and Latvians, as well as with other Northern or Central European peoples, such as Danes, Swedes, Irish, English, Scots, Poles, Hungarians and Dutch.
The Baltic Barons and the Baltic Germans in general were given the new and lasting label of Auslandsdeutsch by the Auswärtiges Amt who now grudgingly entered into negotiations with the Baltic governments on their behalf, especially in relation to compensation for their ruination. Of the 84,000 German Balts, some 20,000 emigrated to Germany ...
Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), chess player, endgame composer, and journalist; Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist; Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733), slave and memoirist (Sweden)
During the 19th century, Baltic started to supersede Ostsee as the name for the region. Officially, its Russian equivalent Прибалтийский (Pribaltiyskiy) was first used in 1859. [44] This change was a result of the Baltic German elite adopting terms derived from Baltisch to refer to themselves. [8] [45]
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
العربية; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Čeština; Dansk; Deutsch; Eesti; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto; Euskara
The Baltic states, recently Sovietized by threats, force, and fraud, generally welcomed the German armed forces. [34] In Lithuania, a revolt broke out and an independent provisional government was established. As the German armies approached Riga and Tallinn, attempts to reestablish national governments were made. Baltic citizens hoped that the ...
Its population is 76,500 (German part 31,500; Polish part 45,000). With an annual average of 1,906 hours of sunshine, Usedom is the sunniest region of both Germany and Poland, and it is also one of the sunniest islands in the Baltic Sea, [1] hence its nickname "Sun Island" (German: Sonneninsel, Polish: Wyspa Słońca [2]).