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The Baltic states are inhabited by several ethnic minorities: in Latvia: 33.0% (including 25.4% Russian, 3.3% Belarusian, 2.2% Ukrainian, and 2.1% Polish), [35] in Estonia: 27.6% (including 22.0% Russian and 10.2% others) [36] and in Lithuania: 12.2% (including 5.6% Polish and 4.5% Russian).
Baltic ethnicity indicates genetic origins in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which are the three countries that make up the Baltic states: a geographic rather than ethno-cultural term. While the majority of Latvians and Lithuanians are of Baltic origin (commonly known as Balts), the majority of Estonians have Finnic origins.
Among the Baltic peoples are modern-day Lithuanians (including Samogitians) and Latvians (including Latgalians) — all East Balts — as well as the Old Prussians, Curonians, Sudovians, Skalvians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the West Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.
Ethnic problems in the Baltic States are a heritage of the Soviet Union. Before annexation in 1940, their ethnic structures were relatively homogenous (Fig 1). To be sure, there were minorities, but not sufficient to be the cause of major internal political problems. Indeed, minorities lived here in peace. During the 1930s all minorities had their
5 dni temu · Baltic states, northeastern region of Europe containing the countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. They are bounded on the west and north by the Baltic Sea, on the east by Russia, on the southeast by Belarus, and on the southwest by Poland and an exclave of Russia.
1 maj 1994 · The essay examines historic and current ethnodemographic trends in spatial and cultural contexts in the Baltic States. Fifty years of Soviet rule, with deliberate policies to dilute the relative homogeneity of the Balts through ethnocide, in-migration, and political dominance by Moscow, has left tensions between citizens of the Baltic States ...
"The essay examines historic and current ethnodemographic trends in spatial and cultural contexts in the Baltic States. Fifty years of Soviet rule, with deliberate policies to dilute the relative homogeneity of the Balts through ethnocide, in-migration, and political dominance by Moscow, has left te …
