The Baltic States

The Baltic Tribes c. 1200 C.E.

Lithuania (13-15th centuries)

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1619)

The Great Northern War (1700-1721)

The Baltic states and the USSR between the wars

The planned and actual division of the USSR’s eastern borderlands pursuant to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

The USSR western borders after WWII (annexation of Baltic states unrecognized by most Western governments)

Ethnic Russian in Latvia

Ethnic Russians in Estonia, percentage by district

Border changes of Estonia and Latvia, 1939-2001

NATO Baltic Air Policing bases

Kaliningrad and the Suwalki Gap