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unusual facts about Baltic region



Baltoceras

The few species known are from the upper Pogonip Limestone of Nevada, the Day Point Limestone of New York, and the “Orthoceras limestone” of the Baltic region of Europe.

Dorothea von Medem

(Anna Charlotte) Dorothea von Medem (3 February 1761 – 20 August 1821) was born a Gräfin (Countess) of the noble German Baltic Medem family and later became Duchess of Courland (a Baltic region).

European Center for Leadership Development

Founded on September 9, 2004 in Helsinki as a Finnish corporation, ECLD started by offering character-based leadership seminars to companies in the Nordic countries, the Baltic region and Russia.

Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum

The fourth book describes the geography of Scandinavia and the Baltic region as well as Iceland, Greenland and Vinland (North America), being the oldest book mentioning (in chapter 38) a part of the North American continent.

Vasilijus Safronovas

Among his works are several books and more that 30 scholarly articles, published in Lithuanian, German, English, Russian, French, and Polish on issues of history of the city and region of Klaipėda, nationalism, foundational myths, cultures of remembrance, politics of history in Lithuania, former region of East Prussia and Baltic Sea Region in the 19th and the 20th Century.

Walter Cowan

Memorials to the 110 men of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force killed in the Baltic action of 1919 are now in the Estonian capital Tallinn, the Latvian capital Riga and Portsmouth cathedral.


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