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The Baltic sea urban areas seen from space. Spit of Vasilyevsky Island, in Saint Petersburg, Russia House of the Blackheads (Riga), Latvia Klaipėda, Lithuania Darłowo Riddarholmen in Stockholm, Sweden Ystad, Sweden Szczecin, Poland The medieval Turku Castle, Turku, Finland Lighthouse in Kołobrzeg, Poland Neptune fountain in Gdańsk, Poland Eldena Abbey, Greifswald, Germany Ruin of St. Peter ...
Pages in category "Port cities and towns of the Baltic Sea" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of cities in the Baltic States by population. The population is measured within city limits on a national level, independently, by each statistical bureau: Central Statistic Bureau of Latvia, [1] Statistics Estonia [2] and State Data Agency of Lithuania. [3]
Kaliningrad, [a] known as Königsberg [b] until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland, 663 kilometres (412 mi) west of the bulk of Russia on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon, and the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea.
The Baltic Sea somewhat resembles a riverbed, with two tributaries, the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia. Geological surveys show that before the Pleistocene, instead of the Baltic Sea, there was a wide plain around a great river that paleontologists call the Eridanos.
Since then three cities (Juodupė, Kulautuva, and Tyruliai) and two villages (Salakas and Jūrė) became towns. Therefore, during the Lithuanian census of 2011 , there were 249 towns in Lithuania. According to Lithuanian law, a town is a compactly-built settlement with a population of 500–3,000 and at least half of the population works in ...
Vineta (sometimes Wineta) is the name of a legendary city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea.The legend evolved around traditions about the Medieval emporium called Jumne, Jomsborg, Julin or similar names by the chronicles, and with which Vineta is sometimes identified.
The city was founded on 8 April 1605 by King Charles IX of Sweden, and granted city privileges in 1610. [26] In 1765, Oulu received township rights granting them to trade outside of Sweden. [ 27 ] Oulu was the capital of the Province of Oulu from 1776 to 2009.