Livonia

LC control no.	n 81033313
Geographic heading	Livonia *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Livonia
Variant(s)	Livland Liefland Livonii︠a︡ Livonija Inflanty Liivimaa
See also	Lifli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡ (Russia) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Found in	Telephone call to BGN 7/23/81 (approved form Livonia; region; 58°0ʹN, 26°0ʹE; variant Livland) Russow, B. Livonijas kronika, 1926: t.p. (Livonijas ...) pref., etc. (Livonija) Enc. Brit., 15th ed.: Micropaedia, v. 6, p. 278 (Livonia; a confed. of ecclesiast. states, free towns and regions org. and ruled by the Order of Teutonic Knights of Livonia during 13th cent.; dismembered after Liv. War, 1558-1583; Lithuania incorp. territ. north of Western Dvina River, Courland became a Polish fief, Sweden acquired Estonia; in 1621 Sweden took Riga and Jelgava and subsequently Estonia and Northern Latvia; after 1721 she ceded them to Russia) Ėnt︠s︡ikl. slovarʹ, 1890-1904: v. 17, p. 654-657 (Livonīi︠a︡; incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1710) v. 17, p. 841-847 (Lifli︠a︡ndskai︠a︡ gubernīi︠a︡) Urzędnicy dawnej Rzeczypospolitej XII-XVIII wieku, 1994: t.p. (Inflanty) p. 5, 8 (under Polish sovereignty from 1561 till 1772) Raudkivi, P. Vana-Liivimaa maapäev, c2007: t.p. (Liivimaa)