Baltic governorates

Baltic governorates Прибалтийские губернии
Governorate
Coat of arms
Map of Baltic governorates, which were the governorates of Courland, Livonia, and Estonia
Country	Russian Empire
Governorate-General	Baltic
Great Northern War; Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia	1710
Established	1721
Third Partition of Poland; Annexation of Courland and Semigallia	1795
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	3 March 1918
Area
• Total	94,567.57 km2 (36,512.74 sq mi)
Preceded by	Swedish Estonia Swedish Livonia Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
Succeeded by	Ober Ost United Baltic Duchy Estonia Latvia

The Baltic governorates,^[a] originally the Ostsee governorates,^[b] was a collective name for the administrative units of the Russian Empire set up in the territories of Swedish Estonia, Swedish Livonia (1721) and, afterwards, of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1795).
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