COURLAND

or Kurlandboth: kûrˈlănd, Ger. koorˈlänt, Latvian Kurzeme, historic region and former duchy, in Latvia, between the Baltic Sea and the Western Dvina River. It is an agricultural and wooded lowland. Jelgava (Ger. Mitau), the historic capital, and Liepaja (Ger. Libau) and Ventspils (Ger. Windau), the Baltic seaports, are the chief cities. The early Baltic tribes—Letts and Kurs—who inhabited the region were subjected in the 13th cent. by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. In 1561 the order disbanded and its grand master became the first duke of Courland, under Polish suzerainty. In the Northern War (1700–1721), it was taken (1701) by Charles XII of Sweden. Empress Anna, who was, by marriage, duchess of Courland before her accession in Russia, forced (1737), the nobles of Courland to elect her favorite, Ernst Johann von Biron, their duke. Russian influence became paramount, and with the third partition of Poland (1795) the duchy passed to Russia. In 1918, Courland was incorporated into Latvia, except for a strip of the southern coast that went to Lithuania.

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books on: Courland  - 583 results

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Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Book by Evgenii V. Anisimov, Kathleen Carroll; Praeger, 2004
Subjects: Empresses--Russia--Biography, Russia--History--18th Century, Women--Russia--Biography
of uniting Courland and Prussia. And once again the Duchess of Courland spent her days in waiting while the years slowly passed...Local noblemen found him suit- able to occupy the Courland throne, which had been vacant for so many years...
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The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Searching for a Place in the World
Book by Aleksandr B. Kamenskii, David Griffiths; M. E. Sharpe, 1997
Subjects: Russia--History--1689-1801
...law, the Duke of Holstein, and on Courland, where Russian influence was to be preserved...plans for Schleswig. In the case of Courland, Russian policy managed to head off...Anna, at that time still Duchess of Courland, to the illegitimate son of Polish king...
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The New Eastern Europe
Book by Ralph Butler; Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919
Subjects: Baltic States, Finland, Poland, States, Small, Ukraine
...Representative in London. In September 1917 the Courland Diet at the instigation of the Occupying...provinces, treating generally with the Courland Council separately and with the other...together as a United National Council. The Courland National Assembly was constituted as...
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Catherine: The Portrait of an Empress
Book by Gina Kaus, June Head; Viking Press, 1935
Subjects: Catherine--Ii--Empress Of Russia--1729-1796
...Baltic Sea--that is to say, of uniting Courland with Russia. In 1795, just before her...of her reign. When Anna Ivanovna of Courland was Empress of Russia, she made her...was a stable-boy by birth, Duke of Courland. He had little opportunity of attending...
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When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
Book by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House; Birlinn, 2000
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front
...Army Group North in the Riga area and Courland. Faced with these unpleasant realities...to withdraw onto a bridgehead in the Courland Penin- sula. This withdrawal took place...reestablishing a new, longer defensive line in Courland required great skill and daring. By...
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Lexical Relations between Salaca Livonian and Estonian Dialects
Journal article by Karl Pajusalu, Arvo Krikmann, Eberhard Winkler; Linguistica Uralica, Vol. 45, 2009
Subjects: Dialects--Analysis, Dialects--History, Lexicology--Analysis, Vocabulary--Analysis
...was the area of Livonian undivided; in Courland Livonian survived longest; for this reason...Livonian settlement in the coastal villages of Courland. The contact areas of Salaca Livonian and Courland Livonian with Estonia were different. For...
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"Prayers in the Market Place": Women and Low Culture in Catharine Sedgwick's, "Cacoethes Scribendi"
Journal article by Maria Carla Sanchez; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 16, 2002
Subjects: Authorship--Social aspects, Culture--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sedgwick, Catharine--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...and sets the story in motion: Mrs. Courland seized upon the annual with avidity...after "seizing upon the annual," Mrs. Courland puts pen to paper and begins to write...views on literature and learning, Mrs. Courland may have pretensions to the type of intellectuality...
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Livonian and Leivu: Shared Innovations and Problems
Journal article by Tiit-Rein Viitso; Linguistica Uralica, Vol. 45, 2009
Subjects: Etymology--Analysis, Language and languages--Analysis, Language and languages--Etymology, Phonetics--Analysis, Ural-Altaic languages--Analysis
...Livonian Coast in the northern tip of the Courland peninsula was dramatically changed and...sandy beach of both the Livonian Coast in Courland and of the eastern coast of the Gulf...in soil is called liedog or liedig in Courland. We have no data about any fishing tackle...
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Medieval Livonian County Metsepole and the Historical and Linguistic Border between Livonians and Estonians
Journal article by Urmas Sutrop, Karl Pajusalu; Linguistica Uralica, Vol. 45, 2009
Subjects: Dialects--Analysis, Estonian history--Social aspects, Ethnic groups--Social aspects, Human settlements--History, Linguistic geography--Analysis
...is the Livonian settlement history in Courland. Encouraged by Tarvels claim that there...territory close to Ventspils Windau, in Courland and up to Parnu (in Estonia). The...Baltic Sea provinces Estonia, Livonia and Courland, argued that in the 13th century the...
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Anglo-Russian Relations during the 1730s: Evidence of the Impact of "Germans" at the Court of Anna Ioannovna
Journal article by Michael Bitter; Germano-Slavica, Vol. 16, 2007
Subjects: Commercial treaties--Analysis, Czars--Foreign policy, German foreign relations--Economic aspects, German foreign relations--Social aspects, Ioannovna, Anna--Foreign policy, Russian foreign relations--Economic aspects, Russian foreign relations--Social aspects, Russian history, 1613-1801--Economic aspects, Russian history, 1613-1801--Social aspects, Trade agreements--Analysis
...prince of Brandenburg elected Duke of Courland upon the death of the last Duke of the...76: 74. (15) The reference here to Courland reflects that fact that it was already...his own election as the next Duke of Courland. In fact, Anna Ioannovna procured this...
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The Razumovsky Duet
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 102, October 1993
Subjects: Classification, Fischer von Waldheim, Johann Gotthelf (1771-1853), History, Paleontology, Patronage, Razumovsky, Aleksei Kirillovich (1748-1822)
...Fischer has inscribed it "to the Society of Arts and Sciences of Courland"--a duchy on the Baltic Sea, now part of Latvia, that...Russian empire in 1795 after the third partition of Poland. Courland enjoyed a seventeenth-century moment of glory and even held...
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Donitz the Admiral Who Inherited Aldolf Hilter's Legacy of Shame
Magazine article by Blaine Taylor; Sea Classics, Vol. 33, January 2000
...being overwhelmed by superior Russian forces. The front in Courland was holding, but we had no munitions or fuel which we could...to evacuate by sea as many troops as possible from Kurland (Courland) and East and West Prussia-From air attacks and in its determined...
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Civilians in Warfare 1500-1789: Civilians Have Always Suffered in Warfare, and Early Modern Europe Was No Exception. but They Contributed to War as Well, through Their Taxes, Their Victuals and Their Bodies. Jeremy Black Explores the Relationship between Civilian and Military
Magazine article by Jeremy Black; History Today, Vol. 56, May 2006
Subjects: Civilians--Social aspects, Europe--History, Europe--Military aspects, Europe--Social aspects
...came from blockade did more damage than cannon fire. Guerrilla action sometimes also played a role. The Swedes who overran Courland in 1658 met serious guerrilla warfare, with peasant units mounting a number of counterattacks, one of which temporarily overran...
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Hartford Ballet Restores a Classic: Journey with Giselle
Magazine article by Doris Hering; Dance Magazine, Vol. 71, April 1997
Subjects: Ballet--History, Giselle (Ballet)--Performances, Hartford Ballet Company--Performances
...somebody who is not of her world." Loys is Count Albrecht pretending to be a peasant. A hunting party led by the Duke of Courland and his daughter Bathilde (Albrechts fiancee) arrives to rest at the modest abode of Giselle and her mother, Berthe. Hilarion...
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The Great War
Magazine article by Michael Howard; The National Interest, Summer 2001
Subjects: Europe--History, War--20th century, World War, 1914-1918--Political aspects
...hard to believe that German territory was any longer under threat. In the east the Russians had been driven out of Poland and Courland (Lithuania), back to their ethnic frontiers. In the west German armies were deep inside France, and their defensive lines...
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WHAT Do You Get If You Cross Some of [...
Newspaper article; July 18, 2009
...sterling6,000 prize. Top headhunting firm Courland has teamed up with major car and motorbike...Motor Group, and SMMT. A spokesman for Courland said: The six shortlisted entrants will...relevant, and emailed to autocaraward@ courland. Full details are at autocar.co...
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WHAT Do You Get [...
Newspaper article; July 18, 2009
...sterling6,000 prize. Top headhunting firm Courland has teamed up with major car and motorbike...Motor Group, and SMMT. A spokesman for Courland said: The six shortlisted entrants will...relevant, and emailed to autocaraward@ courland. Full details are at autocar.co...
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A-Head of the Rest with a New Design; Display to Make Journey Safer Is Up for Top Prize
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 2, 2011
...compete in London against five fellow finalists in the Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award 2011 - an annual competition which aims...to launch an industry career and is run in partnership with Courland Automotive and the Society of Motor Manufacturers Traders...
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Oh to Be in Tobago
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 4, 2006
...18th-century Fort St James at Plymouth has splendid views; the better to spot enemy ships over Courland Bay, named after the Duke of Courland from Latvia who, in the 1650s, ran what must be Latvias only known colony. High above Scarborough...
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Student's Idea Wins National Industry Title; Award for Windscreen Display Concept
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 24, 2011
...industry student, competed against 12 finalists in the Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award 2011 - an annual competition which aims...following his career with interest. " Kevin Gaskell, chairman of Courland International Automotive Practice, said: "Oliver possesses...
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encyclopedia articles on: Courland  - 22 results

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Courland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COURLAND or Kurland both: kur land, Ger. koor...grand master became the first duke of Courland, under Polish suzerainty. In the Northern...Anna, who was, by marriage, duchess of Courland before her accession in Russia, forced...
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Courland Lagoon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COURLAND LAGOON see Kursky Zaliv . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Latvia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which belonged to the former duchy of Courland . Latvia is largely a fertile lowland...grand master became the first duke of Courland, a vassal duchy under Polish suzerainty...partitions of Poland, Latgale and Courland also passed to Russia. The region had...
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Biron, Ernst Johann Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...JOHANN VON ernst yohan f n be ron, be r n, 1690 1772, duke of Courland (1737 43, 1763 69), favorite of Czarina Anna of Russia...under Anna, through whose influence he was elected duke of Courland. After Annas death (1740) he was made regent for her grandnephew...
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Livonian Brothers of the Sword
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Letts, whose territories, subsequently known as Livonia and Courland , became the domain of the order. In 1236 the knights were...were disbanded; their grand master became the first duke of Courland under Polish suzerainty. However, the knights retained their...
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