Denmark supports a border halfway between the two countries ; Poland wants to be awarded an even greater share of the Baltic Sea.

The Danish historian Caspar Paludan-Müller in 1873 in his book " Sagnet om den himmelfaldne Danebrogsfane " put forth the theory that it is a banner sent by the Pope to the Danish King to use in his crusades in the Baltic countries.

He suggested that it was not a papal banner to the King but a papal banner to the Churchly legate in the North, more specifically to archbishop Andreas Sunesøn, which he – without the knowledge of the King – brought with him on the King's crusade in the Baltic countries, in an effort to make the army take on a Christian symbol ( over the king's symbol ) and thereby strengthen the power of the church.

He says in this theory that it might have been Archbishop Andreas Sunesøn's personal ecclesiastical banner or perhaps even the flag of Archbishop Absalon, based on his tireless efforts to expand Christianity to the Baltic countries.

Finland did not attempt to join NATO, even though post-Soviet countries on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere joined.

With the exception of Russia, all neighboring and Baltic states are members of the European Union or the Nordic Council, both of which free movement of persons and capital between the countries.

* Both countries are full members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and of the European Union.

* Both countries are full members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and of the European Union.

* Both countries are full members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and of the European Union.

Finland, the Baltic countries, Poland and Ukraine were transferred to the German power sphere.

By July 1945, Stalin's troops effectively controlled the Baltic States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, and refugees were fleeing out of these countries fearing a Communist take-over.

However, the Kiel Canal was commenced in June 1887, which connected the North Sea with the Baltic through the Jutland peninsula, allowing German ships to travel between the two seas avoiding waters controlled by other countries.

* Both countries are full members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.

Lithuania also cooperates with Nordic and other two Baltic countries through NB8 cooperation format.

The similar format, called NB6 unites Nordic and Baltic countries members of EU.

The Council of the Baltic Sea States ( CBSS ) was established in 1992 in Copenhagen as an informal regional political forum, which main aim is to promote integration process and to affiliate close contacts between the countries of the region.

Lithuania, together with other two Baltic countries, is also a member of Nordic Investment Bank ( NIB ) and cooperates in NORDPLUS programme committed to education.

Britain opposed such proposals, because they feared the Soviets ' proposed language could justify a Soviet intervention in Finland and the Baltic states, or push those countries to seek closer relations with Germany.

Speculation grew stronger when Soviet negotiators referred to its content during negotiations for military bases in those countries ( see occupation of the Baltic States ).

The Baltic countries and Poland are today considered part of the home market, Latvia already having a branch of Nordea () from 2006.

In 1199, Albert of Buxhoeveden was appointed by the Archbishop Hartwig II of Bremen to Christianise the Baltic countries.

Albert began his task by touring the Empire, preaching a Crusade against the Baltic countries, and was assisted in this by a Papal Bull, which declared that fighting against the Baltic heathens was of the same rank as participating in a crusade to the Holy Land.

At Albert's request, Pope Innocent III dedicated the Baltic countries to the Virgin Mary to popularize recruitment to his army and the name " Mary's Land " has survived up to modern times.

* Ostland ( The Baltic countries and Belarus, extended eastward by about 500 km )

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.

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 Baltic languages are generally thought to form a single family with two branches, Eastern and Western.

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.

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.

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

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.