Baltic states

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group of countries region

The Baltic states are three Northern European countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—known for their shared history, location on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, and transition from Soviet republics to independent democracies.

Aliases (9)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	group of countries → region →
BalticWayDate	23 August 1989 →
commonPolicyArea	digital governance initiatives → energy security cooperation → regional security cooperation →
continent	Europe →
culturalRegion	Baltic region →
currency	euro →
EUAccessionYear	2004 →
EUStatus	Schengen Area members →
formerStatus	Soviet Socialist Republics →
gainedIndependenceFrom	Soviet Union →
geopoliticalRegion	Eastern Europe → Northern Europe → post-Soviet states →
hasMember	Estonia → Latvia → Lithuania →
historicalContext	former Soviet republics →
historicalEvent	Baltic Way → Nazi occupation during World War II → Soviet occupation in 1940 → restoration of independence in 1990–1991 →
historicalPeriod	interwar independence 1918–1940 →
independenceWave	late 1980s and early 1990s →
joinedOrganization	European Union → NATO →
languageFamily	Baltic languages → Finno-Ugric languages →
locatedIn	Northern Europe →
locatedOn	eastern coast of the Baltic Sea →
NATOAccessionYear	2004 →
neighboringCountry	Belarus → Poland → Russia →
neighboringRegion	Nordic countries →
neighboringSeaRegion	Gulf of Finland → Gulf of Riga →
politicalSystem	democracies → parliamentary republics →
securityContext	NATO eastern flank →
sharesBorderWithSea	Baltic Sea →
supranationalMembership	Council of Europe → OECD → OSCE →
timeZone	Eastern European Time →
usesDaylightSavingTime	yes →

Referenced by (53)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu ("Baltic region") → Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tartu ("Baltic region") → Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tartu ("Baltic region") → Kaliningrad Oblast ("Baltic Sea region") → Lake Peipus ("Baltic region") → Latvia ("Baltic region") → Riga → Riga Polytechnic Institute ("Baltic region") → University of Tartu ("Baltic region") → University of Tartu Old Observatory ("Baltic region") → Vytautas Magnus University →	locatedIn
1905 Russian Revolution ("Baltic provinces") → Baltic Air Policing → Baltic offensive (1944) → Revolutions of 1989 → Russian Civil War ("Baltic region") → Soviet occupation of the Baltic states ("Baltic region") → Soviet summer offensive of 1944 → Stalinist repressions ("Baltic republics") →	location
16th Army ("Baltic States") → 16th Army (Wehrmacht) ("Baltic States") → Army Group North ("Baltic States") →	areaOfOperations
Lithuanians ("Baltic region") → Town Hall of Kaunas →	region
Estonian Biocentre ("Baltic region") → Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tartu →	regionServed
Soviet partisans →	activeIn
LebensraumPolicy →	appliedInRegion
Baltic Sea →	borderedBy
Nynäshamn Municipality →	connectsByFerryTo
Eastern Europe →	containsSubregion
18th Army (Wehrmacht) ("Baltic States") →	garrisonOrHQ
Backe Plan →	geographicFocus
European Canadians →	hasAncestryFrom
Northwestern Federal Okrug ("Baltic states region") →	hasBorderWithNonSovereignEntity
Russian Orthodox Church ("Baltic states (partly)") →	hasJurisdictionIn
World War II forced migrations →	hasLocation
Radical Reformation →	hasMainRegion
NATO ("Estonia") →	hasMember
Old Believers →	hasPopulation
Soviet football league system ("Baltic republics") →	includedClubsFrom
Northern Europe ("Baltic countries") →	includes
German-occupied Europe →	includesTerritory
Littorina Sea →	influencedCoastlineOf
Einsatzgruppen →	operatedIn
GermanArmyGroupNorth ("Baltic States") →	operationArea
Estonia →	partOf
Lithuania →	regionalGrouping
Hanseatic League →	regionOfInfluence
Soviet Union →	succeededBy
Lebensraum →	targetRegion
Russian Empire ("Baltic provinces") →	territoryIncludes
Middle Low German →	usedIn