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The Baltic states [a] or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO , the European Union , the Eurozone , Council of Europe , and the OECD .
Territorial changes of the Baltic states refers to the redrawing of borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after 1940. The three republics, formerly autonomous regions within the former Russian Empire and before that of former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and as provinces of the Swedish Empire, gained independence in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by the Soviet Union from 1940 until its dissolution in 1991.For a period of several years during World War II, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic states after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941.
The three Baltic countries, or the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – are held to have continued as independent states under international law [1] while under Soviet occupation from 1940 to 1991, as well as during the German occupation in 1941–1944/1945. The prevailing opinion accepts the Baltic thesis that the Soviet ...
The negotiating members of the Grand Baltic Entente also known as the Baltic League: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland. [10] Members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), [11] are the countries [a] with shorelines along the Baltic Sea, in addition to Norway, Iceland and the European Commission.
Estonia was the only of the three Baltic states that established a government in exile. [45] It had legations in London and was the government recognized by the Western world during the Cold War . With the reestablishment of independence by the Soviet Republics leaving the USSR in 1990–1991, the government in exile was integrated into the new ...
Declarations of independence of Lithuania (11 March 1990), Estonia (20 August 1991), and Latvia (21 August 1991) Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states (6 September 1991) Restoration of multi-party democracy in all three countries; Withdrawal of Soviet and then Russian troops from Lithuania by 1993, and Latvia and Estonia ...
South Estonia Estonia: 0.873 8 Kurzeme Region Latvia: 0.870 9 Vidzeme Region Latvia: 0.868 10 Zemgale Region Latvia: 0.861 11 Northeastern Estonia Estonia: 0.857 12 Western Estonia Estonia: 0.855 13 Šiauliai County Lithuania: 0.852 14-15 Panevėžys County Lithuania: 0.850 14-15 Telšiai County Lithuania: 0.850 16-17 Alytus County Lithuania: 0 ...