Livonie

Livonie is the name given by the German to the areas of the coast of the the Baltic where lived Lives, to the north of Lithuania (old C-W communication voluntarily used to distinguish it from current the Lithuania from which the territory is very different). Livonie was a territory corresponding to the near total of the current territory of the Baltic states to be now only the name of a peninsula of current the Latvia.

History

At the beginning of the twelfth century, Livonie was ground of a territorial and political expansion for the German Danish and , and more particularly for the Hanseatic League and the Ordre cistercian. In 1160, the Hanseatic merchants found a counter with the site of current the Riga.

Livonie is then given in stronghold to Albert de Buxhoeveden, a nephew of the archbishop of Bremen, by Philippe de Souabe, king de Germanie. Albert de Buxhoeveden sent to a full convoy soldiers during the Baltic Crusades to convert this area with the Catholicism. In 1201, it founds officially Riga, builds a cathedral, and becomes the first prince bishop of Livonie.

Lives

Lives (also called Livoniens) are not Baltic like the Latvians and the Lithuanians, nor Slaves like the Russians or the Belorusses, but Finno-ougriens like the Estonians, the Finns or the Hungarians. The live population is estimated more only at 500 people in 2000. A Latvian census of 1925 counted 1.238 Lives. The first live city is Ventspils in Latvia.

The live population is the only national minority of Latvia not having its own country (other national minorities being Russian, Belorusse, Lithuanian and Polish).

The livonien

See Live (language)

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