10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIVONIAN»
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Livonian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Livonian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Livonian tales: The deponent
He had only all the happier qualities of the Livonian nature in a higher degree —
none that were foreign to it. He was neither sharp, nor quick, nor ambitious : but
he had the sound moral feeling, the plain strong sense, the noble patient ...
Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, 1861
Illustrations largely consist of maps.
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One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of ...
Officially, only those who still speak the Livonian language are counted as ethnic
Livonians. Traditionally, the Livonians are divided into two groups, the Raan- dali
, the "people of the seashore," west of the Gulf of Riga, and the Kalamied, ...
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Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (2): The stone ...
But while the Livonian Branch flourished the Teutonic Knights of Prussia entered
into a long but serious decline. The union of Poland and Lithuania in 1386 under
the newly baptised King Wladislaw Jagiello meant that the fiction of a ...
5
Ivan the Terrible: A Military History
Salaty (Lithuanian town) 155 Salis (Livonian castle) 232 Salman (Tatar
commander) 109 Saltykov, Lev (Russian nobleman) 1 1 3 Samara (river) 68
Sapieha, Andrzey (Lithuanian commander) 204 Saray (capital of the Golden
Horde) 109 ...
Alexander Filjushkin, 2008
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Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: L-R
In 1201 Bishop Albert founded the town of Riga on Livonian territory, and a year
later the Livonian Knights, also called the Livonian Order, were formed to serve
the bishop by Christianizing the pagan Livonians. The knights, a strict military ...
7
Grammatical Replication and Borrowability in Language Contact
is inflected for case, gender, and number while the Livonian form is not inflected.
CIG ofprepositions: Uralic languages typically have postpositions, but Finnic
languages also have some prepositions; Estonian more than Finnish and
Livonian ...
Björn Wiemer, Bernhard Wälchli, Björn Hansen, 2012
The Fennic branch of the Uralic family is a dialect continuum that is usually
divided into seven languages: Livonian, Estonian, Votic, Ingrian, Finnish,
Karelian and Veps. A Lude language has sometimes been extracted from
Karelian as an ...
Daniel Mario Abondolo, 1998
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Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the Xth Conference, Helsinki 2008
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ST0D IN LIVONIAN Pire Teras Tuuli Tuisk /
Introduction The current paper presents results of our study on Livonian stod.
Livonian is the southernmost Finnic language, spoken in Latvia. Being a highly ...
Martti Vainio, Reijo Aulanko, Olli Aaltonen, 2009
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The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide
(The potentialis is lost in most varieties of Finnic.) Such a future copula occurs in
Veps and in (Curonian) Livonian and to a lesser extent in some insular dialects of
Estonian adjacent to Livonian (Kihnu and Southern Saaremaa) but also in Old ...
Bernd Kortmann, Johan van der Auwera, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIVONIAN»
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Livonian is used in the context of the following news items.
New Britain police blotter
Joshua Oneill, 18, of 383 Livonian Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y., was charged July 8 with second-degree failure to appear. Carlton Curtis, 35, of 44 New ... «Newbritainherald, Jul 15»
Riga Castle Celebrates 500 Years with New Silver Square Coin
During the Livonian War (1558-1583), it was in the Castle of Riga that the self-liquidation act of the Livonian Order was signed in 1561. «Coin Update News, Jun 15»
Izborsk: Monumental citadel on Russia's north-western border
By the early 13th century, Izborsk was increasingly attacked by Teutonic knights in the Livonian Order. In 1232-33 the knights overwhelmed the ... «Russia Beyond the Headlines, Jun 15»
Latvian Bank Issues Coin Honoring 500 Years of Riga Castle
... the Madonna and Wolter von Plettenberg, the Master of the Livonian Order; the reverse depicts a bird's-eye view of a stylised Riga Castle. «CoinWeek, Jun 15»
Riga Castle collector coin issued
... the Madonna and Walter von Plettenberg, the Master of the Livonian Order; the reverse depicts a bird's-eye view of the stylised Riga Castle. «Public broadcasting of Latvia, Jun 15»
Weekend Events Guide: All festivals big and small
Livonian towns are ripe with events this weekend, starting with border town Valka. On Friday at 19:00 on the Estonian side of twin city Valga ... «Public broadcasting of Latvia, Jun 15»
USA Hockey era skating into Compuware Arena
... Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard, Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane and Livonian Ryan Kessler, now with the Anaheim Ducks. «Hometownlife.com, Jun 15»
What gives an accent its distinctive twang? Ultrasounds reveal the …
Livonian is spoken in a medieval town with a population of just 1,682, and the last first-language speaker of the language, Grizelda Kristina ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
Facsimile of "Terra Mariana. 1186-1888" album presented by Latvia …
The album includes visually and textually-rich entries about Livonian castles, castle ruins, churches, coats of arms of members of nobility, seals, ... «The Baltic Course, Apr 15»
Mass suicide at Pilenai: Lithuanian Defenders Choose Death over …
On one side of the conflict were the Christian powers, including Denmark, Poland, Sweden, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and the ... «Ancient Origins, Apr 15»
