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 | | Many of the stages are named after certain marine animals (like the Littorina mollusk) that are clear markers of changing water temperatures and salinity. |
 | | The powerful German Teutonic Knights gained control over most of the southern and eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, while fighting the Danes, the Swedes, the Russians of ancient Novgorod, and the Lithuanians (latest of all Europeans to convert to Christianity). |
 | | Shipbuilding is practiced in many large shipyards around the Baltic: Gdańsk in Poland, HDW in Kiel, Germany, Karlskrona and Kockums AB in Malmö, Sweden, and Rauma, Turku, Helsinki in Finland and Klaipėda in Lithuania. |
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