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Baltic states.
The Baltic governorates were independently administered (by the local Landtags) governorates (or guberniyas) of the Russian Empire on the territory of what is now independent Estonia and Latvia. The Baltic governorates consisted of Governorate of Courland, Governorate of Livonia, and Governorate of Estonia.
The dominions of Swedish Estonia (in what is now northern Estonia) and Swedish Livonia (in what is now southern Estonia and northern Latvia) became the governorates of Reval and Riga, when they were conquered by Russia in during the Great Northern War, and then ceded by Sweden in the Treaty of Nystad in 1721. Notably, both Reval Governorate and Riga Governorate were each at the time subdivided into one province only: the province of Estonia and the province of Livonia, respectively. After an administrative reform in 1796, the Reval Governorate was renamed Governorate of Estonia (Эстляндская губерния), and Riga Governorate renamed Governorate of Livonia (Лифляндская губерния). The third Baltic province of Courland was annexed into Russian Empire after the third partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795.
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| Russian |
Transliteration |
Historic English |
Modern English |
Current area |
| Эстляндская губерния |
Estlyandskaya |
Est(h)onia |
Estonia |
North Estonia |
| Лифляндская губерния |
|
Livonia |
Livonia |
South Estonia, North Latvia (Vidzeme) |
| Курля́ндская губерния |
|
Courland |
Curonia |
South Latvia |
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