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Latvia is the middle one of the three "Baltic Republics" along with [[Useful Notes/Estonia|Estonia]] and [[Useful Notes/Lithuania|Lithuania]], and has shared their modern history of brief independence following [[World War One]] before being snapped up by the Soviet Union until independence in 1991. In fact, it wasn't until 1918 that the three of them had clearly delineated borders - for most of their history the area known as Livonia or Courland/Kurland was a vaguely-defined parcel of land passed around between Prussia and the Teutonic Knights, Sweden, and Russia.