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I removed the following sentence because I doubt whether that is true.
The Baltic provinces - Estonia, Livonia and Courland - ceased to exist in 1876, to form collectively one general government.
Two different encyclopedias give different claims. 1911 Britannica makes the claim above. 10-volume Latvian Soviet Encyclopedia published in 1980s does not mention that and keeps referring to Estonia, Livonia and Courland as separate provinces until October Revolution. Both of them are fairly respectable sources. Britannica is well known and Latvian Soviet Encyclopedia was written by best Latvian historians of that time.
Is there anything else we can check? The claim really contradicts what I have learned about Latvian history but, since it's from Britannica, I don't quite want to dismiss it without checking carefully. Andris 08:26, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)
The article gives good information on what the population breakdown once WAS. Can we have some up-to-date figures, please?
Please add to the article also Finnish name for Courland which is "Kuurinmaa", also known as "The Land of Crane".
JN
Can we consider Courland a de facto independant state if Liepaja regionalist is the incumbant prime minister of Latvia? --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii 12:22, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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I removed the following sentence because I doubt whether that is true.
The Baltic provinces - Estonia, Livonia and Courland - ceased to exist in 1876, to form collectively one general government.
Two different encyclopedias give different claims. 1911 Britannica makes the claim above. 10-volume Latvian Soviet Encyclopedia published in 1980s does not mention that and keeps referring to Estonia, Livonia and Courland as separate provinces until October Revolution. Both of them are fairly respectable sources. Britannica is well known and Latvian Soviet Encyclopedia was written by best Latvian historians of that time.
Is there anything else we can check? The claim really contradicts what I have learned about Latvian history but, since it's from Britannica, I don't quite want to dismiss it without checking carefully. Andris 08:26, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)
The article gives good information on what the population breakdown once WAS. Can we have some up-to-date figures, please?
Please add to the article also Finnish name for Courland which is "Kuurinmaa", also known as "The Land of Crane".
JN
Can we consider Courland a de facto independant state if Liepaja regionalist is the incumbant prime minister of Latvia? --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii 12:22, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:
Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 20:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)