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This article is about the region in Europe. For other uses see Livonia (disambiguation) . Livonia (, 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-Lithuanian nobility ('' Szlachta '') or Russified into the Russian nobility ('' Dvoryanstvo ''). HISTORY Beginning in the 12th century Livonia was an area of economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans , particularly by the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order . Around 1160 Hanseatic traders from Lübeck established a trading post at the future site of Riga , which Albrecht Von Buxthoeven founded in 1201. He ordered the construction of a cathedral and became the first Prince-Bishop of Livonia. Teutonic-Estonian War See Also: Teutonic-Estonian War The Chronicle Of Henry Of Livonia from the 1220s gives a firsthand account of the Christianization of Livonia, granted as a Fief by the Hohenstaufen King of Germany Philip Of Swabia to bishop Albert of Buxthoeven, nephew of the Archbishop Of Bremen , who sailed with a convoy of ships filled with armed crusaders to carve out a Catholic territory in the East during the Northern Crusades . Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights & Livonian Order ]] See Also: Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights Livonian Brothers of the Sword Thus, from 1236 Livonia had these subdivisions - independent countries:
Livonian Confederation around 1260]] The different states in Livonia and present day Estonia were organized in the Livonian Confederation from 1228 to the 1560s . The Livonian Confederation wasn't a State but a Confederation of Independent countries. A Diet or Landtag was formed in 1419. The city of Walk was chosen as the site of the Diet. Duchy of Livonia See Also: Duchy of Livonia |
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