Who is included in the group of Baltic nations
The Baltics is a territory in Northern EuropeThe coast of the Baltic Sea, where Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kaliningrad region of Russia are located. The Baltic nations call the nations of the indigenous people of this region: Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians.
The Baltic States
The Baltic Sea is a sea in the north of Europe, deepgoing into the mainland and entering the Atlantic Ocean basin. On its shores are countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Finland, as well as Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, but in the Baltics, that is, the area "in the Baltic" includes only the last states. Peter the Great won the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, as a result of which Sweden no longer controlled all the coasts. The sea, which the Russians used to call Varangian or Sveisk, ceased to be a stranger. Russia began the process of "spreading" the eastern coast of the Baltic, releasing the national language and culture. In 1884, the sea was given the name of the Baltic, and all the provinces on its shores, included in Russia, began to be called the Baltic. This name was also preserved in the Soviet Union: the Baltic States officially included the Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian SSR and the Kaliningrad Region. In 1990, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania became independent states. The peoples of the Baltic States
The first people in the Baltic States appeared in theX millennium BC, but only a few thousand years, here began to appear fairly large cultures and developed tribes. Representatives of the Volosovo culture are considered the ancestors of modern Baltic people. Some tribes descended from the Slavic or Germanic peoples. For many millennia, they lived mixed, did not have isolated territories, exchanged in the tribes of the Black Sea region and other territories. Only in the middle of the first millennium BC division began: in the north settled the Finnish tribes, in the south the Baltic. But they can not be called peoples by the people, they were separate tribes under the names of Curonians, Lithuanians, Semigallians, Yatvingians, Latgals, Villages and others. The great migration of peoples did not have a significant impact on the Baltic population: most of the tribes remained in place, the peoples who moved from the Scandinavian Peninsula stopped here. The Baltic peoples continued to evolve, their community is now called Balts. They were divided into western (mazur, kurshi, yatvyagi) and eastern Balts (Lithuania, villages, latgals). Many of them were destroyed at the time of the invasion of the German Knights orders. The modern Balts are Lithuanians and Latvians, descendants of those tribes. Estonians are the Baltic-Finnish people, among whose ancestors there are also Finnish tribes.
