The Baltic States is a territory in Northern Europe on the coast of the Baltic Sea where Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Kaliningrad Region of Russia are located. The peoples of the region are called the Baltic peoples: these are Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians.
The Baltic states
The Baltic Sea is a sea in northern Europe that extends deep into the mainland and enters the Atlantic Ocean basin. On its shores are countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Finland, as well as Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, but only the last states are included in the Baltic states, that is, the "Baltic region".
Peter the Great conquered the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, as a result of which Sweden ceased to control all the coasts. The sea, which earlier the Russians called Varyazhsky or Sveysky, ceased to be a stranger. Russia began the process of “unmarking” the eastern coast of the Baltic states, freeing the national language and culture. In 1884, the sea was given the name Baltic, and all the provinces on its shores, which were included in Russia, became known as the Baltic. This name was preserved by the Soviet Union: the Baltic states officially included the Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian SSR and the Kaliningrad region. In 1990, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania became independent states.
