Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A historical region and former duchy of southern Latvia between the Baltic Sea and the Western Dvina River. It passed to Russia in 1795 and was largely incorporated into Latvia in 1918.
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- proper noun A region in western
Latvia . - proper noun historical A
duchy in that region.
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Examples
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Our position, then, during the negotiations with Petersburg was as follows: We could not induce Germany to resign the idea of Courland and Lithuania.
Im Weltkriege. English Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin von und zu Chudenitz 1902
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The Soviet 2nd Baltic (northern sector) and 1st Baltic Fronts (southern sector) commenced a blockade, precipitating the German defence of the Courland perimeter during Soviet attempts to reduce it.
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Dual Monarchy forces seized Lublin, Cholm, and Ivangorod in Russian Poland by August, while the Germans drove into northern Poland and Courland, capturing Mitau, Warsaw, Brest-Litovsk, Grodno, and
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Meanwhile, by 1800, there were also salons in Berlin headed by non-Jewish salonnières: some in the aristocratic tradition (the Duchess Dorothea of Courland, Princess Luise Radziwill), some from the Bildungsbürgertum (e.g. Sophie Sander).
Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century. 2009
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I noticed that you had my Carpanian and Courland gentlemen adventurers active in the game.
Jacobite Victory At Carmudgeon Der Alte Fritz 2008
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The Duke of Courland was a spendthrift; he had a steward and a pretty wife — three several causes of ruin.
Eve and David 2007
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The steward gave his secretary all the necessary documents for compiling a schedule of the civil list of Courland.
Eve and David 2007
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The secretary stole away in a fishing-boat with a few crowns in his pocket, and reached the court of Courland with a letter of introduction from
Eve and David 2007
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The steward gave his secretary all the necessary documents for compiling a schedule of the civil list of Courland.
Eve and David 2007
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The secretary stole away in a fishing-boat with a few crowns in his pocket, and reached the court of Courland with a letter of introduction from
Eve and David 2007
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