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 )

The Baltic languages are a subbranch of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family.

Baltic languages are spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

The group is usually divided into two sub-groups: Western Baltic, containing only extinct languages, and Eastern Baltic, containing both extinct and the two living languages in the group: Lithuanian ( including both Standard Lithuanian and Samogitian ) and Latvian ( including both literary Latvian and Latgalian ).

The now-extinct Old Prussian language has been considered the most archaic of the Baltic languages.

Distribution of the Baltic languages in the Baltic ( simplified ).

Speakers of modern Baltic languages are generally concentrated within the borders of Lithuania and Latvia, and in emigrant communities in the United States, Canada, Australia and states of the former Soviet Union.

Historical expansion of the usage of Slavic languages in the South and East, and Germanic languages in the West reduced the geographic distribution of Baltic languages to a fraction of the area which they had formerly covered.

It is also believed that Baltic languages are among the most archaic of the remaining Indo-European languages, despite their late attestation.

Besides those mentioned, other large bodies of water adjacent to the Atlantic are the Caribbean Sea ; the Gulf of Mexico ; Hudson Bay ; the Arctic Ocean ; the Mediterranean Sea ; the North Sea ; the Baltic Sea and the Celtic Sea.

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

In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.

As the Eudoses are the Jutes, these names probably refer to localities in Jutland or on the Baltic coast, in which case their inhabitants would be Cimbri or Teutones for Pliny.

They are the grey seal ( Halichoerus grypus ) and the Baltic ringed seal ( Pusa hispida botnica ) that both feed underneath and breed on the ice.

An important source of salty water are infrequent inflows of North Sea water into the Baltic.

Key evidence of Baltic language presence in these regions is found in hydronyms ( names of bodies of water ) in the regions that are characteristically Baltic.

The Baltic languages are of particular interest to linguists because they retain many archaic features, which are believed to have been present in the early stages of the Proto-Indo-European language.

There is a minority of scholars who argue that Baltic forms a separate branch of Indo-European, or that it is not a genetic node in either Indo-European family or Balto-Slavic, but that Eastern and Western Baltic are separate branches of Balto-Slavic.

It culminated in the so-called brick Gothic, a reduced style of Gothic architecture that flourished in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea which are without natural rock resources.

The Balts or Baltic peoples are an Indo-European ethnic-linguistic group who speak the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, which was originally spoken by tribes living in area east of Jutland peninsula in the west and Moscow, Oka and Volga rivers basins in the east.

Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians, Latvians ( including Latgalians ) — all Eastern Balts — as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the Western Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

There are few direct testimonies to the language of the Cimbri: Referring to the Northern Ocean ( the Baltic or the North Sea ), Pliny the Elder states: " Philemon says that it is called Morimarusa, i. e. the Dead Sea, by the Cimbri, until the promontory of Rubea, and after that Cronium.

Now generally considered the founder of the Lithuanian state, he is also now credited with stopping the advance of the Tatars towards the Baltic Sea, establishing international recognition of Lithuania, and turning it towards Western civilization.

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.

Tacitus ' description of their contemporary settlement area, adjacent to the Goths at the " ocean ", is generally seen as the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, the later Pomerania.

Ertholmene, generally called Christiansø, is a small archipelago situated approximately 18 km northeast of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.

The Slavic and Baltic languages have generally retained their inflection, along with Greek.

Still it is generally held that "… Celtic, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic may possibly be traced back to the Corded Ware horizon of north, central and eastern Europe.

Ærø is the only island among the larger Danish Baltic Sea islands that is not connected with a bridge, and road traffic is generally low.

The name Neris is of Baltic origin, a cognate of the Lithuanian nerti generally meaning " to dive, swim downstream " as well as " to net, crochet ".

Cogs were generally built of oak, which was an abundant timber in the Baltic region of Prussia.

The Big Sioux River rises in Roberts County, South Dakota on a low plateau known as the Coteau des Prairies and flows generally southwardly through Grant, Codington, Hamlin, Brookings, Moody, and Minnehaha counties, past the communities of Watertown, Castlewood, Bruce, Flandreau, Egan, Trent, Dell Rapids, and Baltic to Sioux Falls, where it passes over a waterfall which gives that city its name.

The Baltic states, recently Sovietized by threats, force, and fraud, generally welcomed the German armed forces when they crossed the frontiers.

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 ).

Swedes also got the right to tax Polish trade moved through the Baltic ( 3. 5 % on the value of goods ), kept control of many cities in Royal Prussia ( including Baltiysk ( Pillau, Piława ), Memel and Elbląg ( Elbing )) and for the time were generally recognized as the dominant power on the southern Baltic Sea coast.

Churchill hoped that a British fleet in the Baltic could dominate the Sea, cutting off the flow of iron ore from Sweden and generally isolating Germany from Scandinavian trade.

In spite of these points, the Aestii are generally considered the ancestors of the later Baltic peoples.

Although DFDS has generally concentrated on freight and passenger traffic on the North Sea and to the Baltic Sea ), it has also operated freight services to the USA, South America and the Mediterranean in the past.

There is conclusive evidence that Denmark became the first Baltic power to build classic Mediterranean-style galleys in the 1660s, though they were generally too large and less useful in its wars against Sweden.

In the Baltic, galleys were generally shorter with a length-to-width ratio from 5: 1 to 7: 1, an adaptation to the cramped conditions of the Baltic archipelagos.

Baltic mythology generally covers the pre-Christian mythology of the Baltic peoples, including Latvians, Lithuanians and Old Prussians, which are thought to have at least some common roots.