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Esthonia - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The chief seaports are Reval, Baltic Port, Hapsal, Kunda and Dag. |
 | | Altogether they number close upon one million, and are thus distributed: 3 6 5,959 in Esthonia (in 1897), 5 18,594 in Livonia, 64,116 in the government of St Petersburg, 25,458 in that of Pskov, and 12,855 in other parts of Russia. |
 | | In 1521 the nobles and cities of Esthonia voluntarily placed themselves under the protection of the crown of Sweden; but after the wars of Charles XII., Esthonia was formally ceded to his victorious rival, Peter the Great, by the peace of Nystad (1721). |
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