Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "History of Finland" ¶ 39
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Baltic and expeditions
During the Viking age their expeditions, frequently combined raiding and trading, penetrated most of the old Frankish empire, the British Isles, The Baltic, Russia and both Muslim and Christian Iberia.
The resurgence of centralized authority throughout Europe limited opportunities for traditional raiding expeditions in the West, whilst the Christianization of the Scandinavian kingdoms themselves encouraged them to direct their attacks against the still predominantly pagan regions of the eastern Baltic.
The German fisheries biologist Friedrich Wilhelm Tesch, an eel expert and author of the book " The Eel " ( ISBN 0-632-06389-0 ), conducted many expeditions with high-tech instrumentation to follow eel migration, first down the Baltic, then along the coasts of Norway and England, but finally the transmitter signals were lost at the continental shelf when the batteries ran out.
The fourth major source are three biographies of the German warrior-bishop St Otto, who in the early 12th century led several military-pastoral expeditions into the regions of Slavic tribes living near the Baltic Sea.
A member of the Keyserlingk clan, a wealthy aristocratic Baltic German family, he is considered to be one of the founders of Russian geology, making many expeditions on behalf of his close personal friend and friend of the family, Tsar Nicholas I.
For the first time, Russia sent its squadrons from the Baltic Sea to distant theaters of operations ( see Archipelago expeditions of the Russian Navy ).
Influenced by Papal bulls Swedish magnates in the 12th century set up crusadeing expeditions to convert the heathens in the eastern Baltic.
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, Spiridov was in charge of a squadron, which would be sent from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to assist the Greeks in their struggle against the Turks in the summer of 1769 ( see Orlov Revolt and Archipelago expeditions of the Russian Navy ).

Baltic and #
# REDIRECT Baltic Sea
# The Kashubian language, spoken in the Pomorze region west of Gdańsk on the Baltic Sea, has seemed like a dialect to some observers.
# Saaremaa Velotuur is a group race of road cyclists that is oldest in the Nordic countries ( held since 1957 ) and the only international one in the Baltic states.
# A Finnish historian, Matti Klinge, has speculated that the words " Wends " or " Vandals " used in Scandinavian sources occasionally meant all peoples of the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea from Pomerania to Finland, including some Finnic peoples.
# REDIRECT Baltic states
# REDIRECT Council of the Baltic Sea States
# REDIRECT Baltic states
# REDIRECT Baltic states # Tourism_of_the_Baltic_states
# REDIRECT Baltic states
# REDIRECT Baltic states
# REDIRECT Baltic states
# REDIRECT Baltic Sea
# Until at least 1750 it was in strict contact with the other Low German dialects along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, forming a consistent dialectal continuum of one proper language.
# NCSJ Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia
# REDIRECT Baltic states
# Foreign nobility, i. e. families of foreign origin ( particularly German / Baltic, but also other nationalities ) which had noble status in a different country than Sweden, and which partially or wholly live in Sweden.
# redirect Baltic Finns
# By mining the Gulf of Finland Finland's navy together with the Kriegsmarine before the start of Barbarossa locked the Leningrad fleet in, making the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia practically domestic German waters, where submarines and navy could be trained without risks in addition of securing Finland's fundamental trade routes for food and fuel.
# REDIRECT Baltic region
# Biggles in the Baltic ( 1940 )
# REDIRECT Baltic states
In 2008 it was # 2 in containers on the Baltic sea.
# REDIRECT Baltic Shield

Baltic and 13
** The same storm which pounded the U. S. earlier in the month hits England, Scandinavia and the Baltic States, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.
It would consist of five divisions of the Baltic Fleet, including 11 of its 13 battleships.
* 13: 39 The Japanese Combined Fleet gains visual contact with the Russian Baltic Fleet, and sends up the battle flag.
* Some 13, 700 Baltic Germans were resettled from Estonia by early 1940.
On July 13, the English version of " Snegopady ", named " Snowfalls ", was released to the playlist of MTV Baltic.
As Russian forces embarked upon their unprecedented march across the frozen Baltic on March 13, King Gustav IV — accused of fatal mistakes leading to the loss of Finland — was dethroned in Stockholm and his uncle was proclaimed Charles XIII of Sweden.
An imperial generalissimo by land, and Admiral of the Baltic Sea from 21 April 1628, who had made himself ruler of the lands of the Duchy of Friedland in northern Bohemia, Wallenstein found himself released from service on 13 August 1630 after Ferdinand grew wary of his ambition.
On April 12, 1918, a Provincial Assembly composed of 35 Baltic Germans, 13 Estonians and 11 Latvians passed a resolution calling upon the German Emperor to recognize the Baltic provinces as a monarchy and make them a German protectorate.
* 13 July – Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art opens in the converted Baltic Flour Mill at Gateshead in North East England.
* The great storm tide on 13 November 1872 hit the Coast of the Baltic Sea from Denmark to Pomerania and flooded Eckernförde for days
Supported by the Marine Brigade Erhardt ( the first paramilitary group to use the swastika as its emblem ), by the irregular " Baltic " troops ( the German troops who had occasioned trouble in Courland in the previous year by fighting independently of any government ), who were now stationed at Döberitz, by the former guard cavalry division, and by the Reichswehr troops whom General von Lüttwitz had led, Kapp advanced upon Berlin in the early hours of March 13.
The Bay of Greifswald is quite shallow, with an average depth of 5. 6 m, and a maximum depth of 13. 5 m. Its water is brackish rather than briny owing to inflow from rivers, and the Baltic Sea's complex hydrography ( saltier water is generally found only at greater depths there ).
Estimated membership at the beginning of the 20th century was 200, 000, in almost 1000 congregations worldwide, spread as follows: England: 315, Scotland 28, Ireland: 6, Germany: 348, Netherlands: 17, Austria / Hungary: 8, Switzerland: 41, Norway: 10, Sweden: 15, Denmark: 59, Russia, Finland, Poland and the Baltic States: 18, France: 7, Belgium: 3, Italy: 2, USA: 29, Canada: 13, Australia: 15, New Zealand: 5, South Africa: 1.
* August 7 – 8 ( overnight ) – 13 Ilyushin DB-3 bombers of the Soviet Navys Baltic Fleet Air Force conduct a raid on Berlin without loss.
* June 13 – 16-Soviet Air Force MiG-15s shoot down a Swedish Air Force C-47 Dakota on an intelligence gathering mission over the Baltic Sea, and the PBY Catalina that is sent to search for survivors.
* July 13Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, converted from the Baltic Flour Mill at Gateshead in North East England, opens.
He next organized an extensive international business in coal, and had 13 steamers trading to and from North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Sea ports.
It runs 13 kilometers to Markgrafenheide on the Baltic Sea, where a 43 kilometer submarine cable section to the island of Falster begins.
The Catalina affair was an incident on June 13, 1952, when a Swedish military Douglas DC-3A-360 Skytrain flying over the Baltic Sea carrying out signals intelligence gathering operations for the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment ( FRA ), disappeared east of the isle of Gotska Sandön.
After the annexation of Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were transformed into the Lithuanian SSR ( July 13 ), Latvian SSR ( July 21 ) and Estonian SSR ( also July 21 ), and were formally adjoined to the Soviet Union on August 3, August 5 and August 6, respectively.

0.705 seconds.