A story about the Livonian Liv language going extinct and about the people still trying to keep it alive ...

All living Livonians can fit into a single room; once every two years they pretty much do, when representatives of this tiny Latvian ethnic minority gather in their cultural center in this seaside ...

Over the centuries it was attacked by Swedes, Livonians, Lithuanians and Norwegians. Still, few other cities preserved so many ancient churches and frescoes. Its architecture, dating from the llth ...

The crusader army consisted of knights of the Order, units of citizens of Riga, and an unknown number of allied Livonians and Latgalians. The crusader army lost its track and wandered for a few days ...

Samogitia borders on the Baltic Sea; its shape is triangular. Rivers separate it, a length of seventy German miles: the Nemunas separates it from Prussia; the Šventoji from the Courland region of ...

According to the plan, the Oeselians were to close the Daugava River estuary and besiege the city of Riga, the Rotalians were to attack the Livonians in Turaida, and the Sackalians and Ungannians were ...

From their mastery of the seas to their influence over lands as far from home as Russia and North America, the Scandinavian raiders known as the Vikings shaped the world for centuries. Swift and ...

25. An ancient Finno-Ugric ethnic group often called Livs or Livonians, once lived in plentiful numbers along the Latvian Baltic coast. Their extensive influence on the Latvian language is widely ...

From their mastery of the seas to their influence over lands as far from home as Russia and North America, the Scandinavian raiders known as the Vikings shaped the world for centuries. Swift and ...

The settlement and probable origin of the most celebrated Lithuanian people, so far not explained by any Latin historians Ptolemy the Geographer, who was most curious about the entire world, recounts ...