An ant inside Baltic amber

A mosquito and a fly in this Baltic amber necklace are between 40 and 60 million years old

Extracting Baltic amber from Holocene deposits, Gdansk, Poland

Unique colors of Baltic amber.

Fishing for amber on the coast of Baltic Sea.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

Found along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, yellow amber reached the Middle East and western Europe via trade.

Includes Succinite (= ' normal ' Baltic amber ) and Glessite.

Baltic amber yields on dry distillation succinic acid, the proportion varying from about 3 % to 8 %, and being greatest in the pale opaque or bony varieties.

Baltic amber is distinguished by its yield of succinic acid, hence the name succinite.

Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being mostly transparent and often containing a higher number of fossil inclusions.

* Natural Baltic amber – gemstone which has undergone mechanical treatment only ( for instance: grinding, cutting, turning or polishing ) without any change to its natural properties

* Modified Baltic amber – gemstone subjected only to thermal or high-pressure treatment, which changed its physical properties, including the degree of transparency and color, or shaped under similar conditions out of one nugget, previously cut to the required size.

* Reconstructed ( pressed ) Baltic amber – gemstone made of Baltic amber pieces pressed in high temperature and under high pressure without additional components.

* Bonded Baltic amber – gemstone consisting of two or more parts of natural, modified or reconstructed Baltic amber bonded together with the use of the smallest possible amount of a colorless binding agent necessary to join the pieces.

Baltic amber or succinite ( historically documented as Prussian amber ) is found as irregular nodules in marine glauconitic sand, known as blue earth, occurring in the Lower Oligocene strata of Sambia in Prussia ( in historical sources also referred to as Glaesaria ).

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 20 ° E to 26 ° E longitude.

The Baltic Sea is connected by man-made waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Canal, and to the North Sea via the Kiel Canal.

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, perhaps the largest body of brackish water in the world ( other possibilities include the Black Sea, Hudson Bay and the Caspian Sea ).

The Baltic Sea is about 1, 600 km ( 1, 000 mi ) long, an average of 193 km ( 120 mi ) wide, and an average of 55 m ( 180 ft, 30 fathoms ) deep.

The Baltic Sea, in ancient sources known as Mare Suebicum ( also known as Mare Germanicum ), is also known by the equivalents of " East Sea ", " West Sea ", or " Baltic Sea " in different languages:

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

On the long-term average, the Baltic Sea is ice-covered for about 45 % of its surface area at the maximum annually.

It is known that since 1720, the Baltic Sea has frozen over entirely only 20 times.

Of these two seals, only the Baltic ringed seal suffers when there is not an adequate ice in the Baltic Sea, as it feeds its young only on ice.

The Baltic Sea flows out through the Danish straits ; however, the flow is complex.

The Baltic Sea's salinity is much lower than that of ocean water ( which averages 35 ‰), as a result of abundant freshwater runoff from the surrounding land, combined with the shallowness of the sea itself ; indeed, runoff contributes roughly one-fortieth its total volume per year, as the volume of the basin is about 21, 000 km³ and yearly runoff is about 500 km³.

Below 40 to 70 m, the salinity is between 10 and 15 ‰ in the open Baltic Sea, and more than this near Danish Straits.

The northern part of the Baltic Sea is known as the Gulf of Bothnia, of which the northernmost part is the Bay of Bothnia

Bornholm (; Old Norse: Burgundaholmr, " the island of the Burgundians ") is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea located to the east of ( most of ) the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, and north of Poland.

* Old Curonian ( sometimes considered Western Baltic ) †

After the Partitions of Poland, most of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages were sometimes prohibited from being written down, or used publicly.

Fresh and dried dill leaves ( sometimes called " dill weed " to distinguish it from dill seed ) are used as herbs, mainly in Finland, Sweden, the Baltic, in Russia, and in central Asia.

The east Baltic world was transformed by military conquest: first the Livs, Latgallians and Estonians, then the Semigallians, Curonians, Prussians and the Finns underwent defeat, baptism, military occupation and sometimes extermination by groups of Danes, Germans and Swedes.

The east Baltic world was transformed by military conquest: first the Livs, and Estonians, then the Prussians and the Finns underwent defeat, baptism, military occupation and sometimes extermination by groups of Germans, Danes and Swedes.

Well-known examples include lobster and the burning jellyfish ( of Cyanea Article ); the latter can sometimes drift into the southwest Baltic sea, but it cannot reproduce there.

Incorrectly, ethnic Germans from East Prussia are sometimes considered Baltic German for reasons of cultural, linguistic, and historical affinities.

Owing to their German heritage, during World War I Baltic Germans were sometimes seen as the enemy by Russians, yet also as traitors by the German Empire if they remained loyal to Russia.

Almost all the Baltic Germans were resettled by ships from the port cities of Estonia and Latvia and to the Wartheland ( sometimes also called Warthegau ) and other Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany.

The present day governments of Estonia and Latvia, who regained their independence in 1991, generally take a positive, or sometimes neutral, view towards the contributions of the Baltic Germans in the development of their cities and countries throughout their history.

Vineta or Wineta ( sometimes held to be identical with Jomsborg ) was a possibly legendary ancient town believed to have been on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

Nexø, sometimes spelled Neksø, is a town on the eastern coast of the Baltic island of Bornholm, Denmark.

A military order is any one of a variety of Christian societies of knights that were founded from the Middle Ages onwards for the purpose of crusading – propagating or defending the faith ( originally Catholic, and after the Reformation sometimes Protestant ), either in the Holy Land or against Islam ( as, for example, during the Reconquista ) or pagans ( mainly in the Baltic region ) in Europe.

It is possible to group together the Baltic states ( or, sometimes, only Estonia ) and parts of northwest Russia as sharing cultural similarities, contrasted with Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Atlantic islands of, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Eckernförde (, sometimes also Egernfjord, Low German: Eckernför, sometimes also Eckernföör ) is a German city in Schleswig-Holstein, Kreis Rendsburg-Eckernförde at the Baltic Sea near Kiel.

The name Baltic for this wheel arrangement was also sometimes used in Europe.

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The Baltic Shield ( sometimes referred to as the Fennoscandian Shield ) is located in Fennoscandia ( Norway, Sweden and Finland ), northwest Russia and under the Baltic Sea.

In Scotland and the Nordic countries of Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden as well as the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the freedom to roam may take the form of general public rights which are sometimes codified in law.

The Yotvingian language ( sometimes called Sudovian ) was a Western Baltic language nearest to Prussian, but with small variations.

Eduard Ivanovich Totleben (, sometimes transliterated as Todleben ) ( 20 May 1818 – 1 July 1884 ) was a Baltic German military engineer and Imperial Russian Army general.

Wrangel ( sometimes transliterated as Wrangell ) is a Baltic German noble family, included in Swedish, Russian and Prussian nobility.