Fun fact: when Russia first attacked Livonia during the Livonian War it was actually welcomed by the inhabitants, because Latvians, Estonians and Livonians hated the Baltic Germans /that much./
Then they started raping.
Then they started raping.
Like I’m Swedish but don’t think Sweden had any real right to rule over Estonia and (parts of) Latvia. That we were perhaps marginally better imperial overlords than the Russians is a very low bar to clear.
August 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Fun fact: when Russia first attacked Livonia during the Livonian War it was actually welcomed by the inhabitants, because Latvians, Estonians and Livonians hated the Baltic Germans /that much./
Then they started raping.
Then they started raping.
It's a bit like how around this same time a lot of Estonians, Livonians and Latvians actually broadly welcomed the invading Russian army because the Livonian Order were just that bad.
March 18, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It's a bit like how around this same time a lot of Estonians, Livonians and Latvians actually broadly welcomed the invading Russian army because the Livonian Order were just that bad.
This literally dates back to Ivan the Terrible btw. Allegedly, according to some sources, the Latvians, Livonians and Estonians were initially /delighted/ when he invaded Livonia because they thought the end of the German yoke was nigh. Then they started killing fucking everybody, for no reason.
The eternal struggle of "If only Russia could be normal"
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This literally dates back to Ivan the Terrible btw. Allegedly, according to some sources, the Latvians, Livonians and Estonians were initially /delighted/ when he invaded Livonia because they thought the end of the German yoke was nigh. Then they started killing fucking everybody, for no reason.
wagon train beset by Livonians again. screaming, crying, throwing up etc
February 6, 2024 at 8:49 PM
wagon train beset by Livonians again. screaming, crying, throwing up etc
Like it cannot be stressed enough that what the rule of the Livonian Order was like was that Latvians, Estonians, Livonians and the other peoples, living and extinct, of that land were denied legal rights (to land, inheritance, etc) because they were "still" "only" "novitiates" in Christianity.
August 28, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Like it cannot be stressed enough that what the rule of the Livonian Order was like was that Latvians, Estonians, Livonians and the other peoples, living and extinct, of that land were denied legal rights (to land, inheritance, etc) because they were "still" "only" "novitiates" in Christianity.
Old Prussians, Livonians, Balts
Pagans wiped by Crusade (12th–13th c.)
1000+ years of belief ended in a single reign
Pagans wiped by Crusade (12th–13th c.)
1000+ years of belief ended in a single reign
September 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Old Prussians, Livonians, Balts
Pagans wiped by Crusade (12th–13th c.)
1000+ years of belief ended in a single reign
Pagans wiped by Crusade (12th–13th c.)
1000+ years of belief ended in a single reign
The Livonians were a Finnic people like we are. They inhabited the coast of this gulf for millennia but are now sadly as good as extinct.
Here's a map of Baltic peoples c. 1200 AD with the Livonians (liivlased) also indicated.
Here's a map of Baltic peoples c. 1200 AD with the Livonians (liivlased) also indicated.
January 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Livonians were a Finnic people like we are. They inhabited the coast of this gulf for millennia but are now sadly as good as extinct.
Here's a map of Baltic peoples c. 1200 AD with the Livonians (liivlased) also indicated.
Here's a map of Baltic peoples c. 1200 AD with the Livonians (liivlased) also indicated.
Re the Baltics and the Teutonics/Livonians
Effectively, they were kept in a state of centuries-long PARTIAL conversion, in order to deny them the rights that full Christians enjoyed. Apartheid!
August 28, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Re the Baltics and the Teutonics/Livonians
My mother and her family are indigenous Livonians displaced during WWII who were refugees in the UK for a while. My father is Welsh (which, if you ask me, is also an indigenous ethnic group, but that's probably more controversial).
Here's me in my Livonian gūngaserk and jūost.
Here's me in my Livonian gūngaserk and jūost.
November 22, 2023 at 2:30 PM
My mother and her family are indigenous Livonians displaced during WWII who were refugees in the UK for a while. My father is Welsh (which, if you ask me, is also an indigenous ethnic group, but that's probably more controversial).
Here's me in my Livonian gūngaserk and jūost.
Here's me in my Livonian gūngaserk and jūost.
Most Livonians don't like socialism. They do like a recreation center/gym half paid for by taxes. Thanks, neighbors. :-)
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Most Livonians don't like socialism. They do like a recreation center/gym half paid for by taxes. Thanks, neighbors. :-)
8. Livonian
The edgy trouble child nestled on the Courland peninsula in Latvia, Livonians were gutted by the Soviets and went extinct in 2013.
Yet, this very particular Finno-Ugric language is undergoing intense revitalization. There's even a family in Helsinki who speak only Livonian to their kid!
The edgy trouble child nestled on the Courland peninsula in Latvia, Livonians were gutted by the Soviets and went extinct in 2013.
Yet, this very particular Finno-Ugric language is undergoing intense revitalization. There's even a family in Helsinki who speak only Livonian to their kid!
February 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
8. Livonian
The edgy trouble child nestled on the Courland peninsula in Latvia, Livonians were gutted by the Soviets and went extinct in 2013.
Yet, this very particular Finno-Ugric language is undergoing intense revitalization. There's even a family in Helsinki who speak only Livonian to their kid!
The edgy trouble child nestled on the Courland peninsula in Latvia, Livonians were gutted by the Soviets and went extinct in 2013.
Yet, this very particular Finno-Ugric language is undergoing intense revitalization. There's even a family in Helsinki who speak only Livonian to their kid!
Not Finland. You are confusing the Finnic language group (members all called Finns) with Finland the country. The Finnic speakers include Estonians, Livonians, Vizhorians and several other groups. The Mera and Myrona Finnic speakers were the original settlers on that site.
December 31, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Not Finland. You are confusing the Finnic language group (members all called Finns) with Finland the country. The Finnic speakers include Estonians, Livonians, Vizhorians and several other groups. The Mera and Myrona Finnic speakers were the original settlers on that site.
⚫️🏳️ ~ 𝐓𝐄𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐒 𝐗 𝐏𝐋𝐂 ~ 🇵🇱🇱🇹
😍Had the Livonians resisted enough, they wouldn’t have come to Poland-Lithuania to secure "protection"~♡🤗💖
#CountryHumans
#countryhumansnsfw
#countryhumanspolandlithuania
#countryhumansteutonicorder
#nsfw
#nationplay
#politicsplay
😍Had the Livonians resisted enough, they wouldn’t have come to Poland-Lithuania to secure "protection"~♡🤗💖
#CountryHumans
#countryhumansnsfw
#countryhumanspolandlithuania
#countryhumansteutonicorder
#nsfw
#nationplay
#politicsplay
July 29, 2026 at 10:41 PM
⚫️🏳️ ~ 𝐓𝐄𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐒 𝐗 𝐏𝐋𝐂 ~ 🇵🇱🇱🇹
😍Had the Livonians resisted enough, they wouldn’t have come to Poland-Lithuania to secure "protection"~♡🤗💖
#CountryHumans
#countryhumansnsfw
#countryhumanspolandlithuania
#countryhumansteutonicorder
#nsfw
#nationplay
#politicsplay
😍Had the Livonians resisted enough, they wouldn’t have come to Poland-Lithuania to secure "protection"~♡🤗💖
#CountryHumans
#countryhumansnsfw
#countryhumanspolandlithuania
#countryhumansteutonicorder
#nsfw
#nationplay
#politicsplay
Livonians (in the white = Latvians, peasant ladies in Lielvarde) and wives of Russian merchants in Riga by Christoph Brotze, end of the 18th cent.
April 14, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Livonians (in the white = Latvians, peasant ladies in Lielvarde) and wives of Russian merchants in Riga by Christoph Brotze, end of the 18th cent.
Podem preguntar-ho als còrnics (en anglès), als dàlmates (en serbo-croat), als aragonesos i asturians (en castellà), als livonians (en lituà)… ells ens poden donar pistes.
July 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Podem preguntar-ho als còrnics (en anglès), als dàlmates (en serbo-croat), als aragonesos i asturians (en castellà), als livonians (en lituà)… ells ens poden donar pistes.
Yeah, it's wild. The worst for me was when people called me a Nazi for being against the USSR. (The USSR was famously brutal against indigenous Livonians and Latvian people broadly, which is why my mother's family ended up refugees in the UK in the first place.)
August 26, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Yeah, it's wild. The worst for me was when people called me a Nazi for being against the USSR. (The USSR was famously brutal against indigenous Livonians and Latvian people broadly, which is why my mother's family ended up refugees in the UK in the first place.)
Can Pope Leo get support from the Teutons and the Livonians?
July 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Can Pope Leo get support from the Teutons and the Livonians?
Estonian Public Broadcasting shares an interview with the director of the UL Livonian Institute Valts Ernštreits about the current state and future of the Livonians and Livonian.
#NExtGenEU #FLPP #Liivlased #Livonians #līvlizt
novaator.err.ee/1609783134/l...
#NExtGenEU #FLPP #Liivlased #Livonians #līvlizt
novaator.err.ee/1609783134/l...
Liivi keeleteadlane: liivi keele püsimajäämine on ajaloo ime
Liivi keele edasiandmine pole kunagi katkenud ja kuuldused n-ö viimase liivlase surmast on liialdatud, ütleb liivi juurtega keeletadlane ja aktivist Valts Ernštreits. Keele edendamine ei peaks tema sõ...
novaator.err.ee
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Estonian Public Broadcasting shares an interview with the director of the UL Livonian Institute Valts Ernštreits about the current state and future of the Livonians and Livonian.
#NExtGenEU #FLPP #Liivlased #Livonians #līvlizt
novaator.err.ee/1609783134/l...
#NExtGenEU #FLPP #Liivlased #Livonians #līvlizt
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That's exactly why I find it interesting! I really like seeing Finns and Estonians support Livonians, and I like Welsh and Cornish and Breton and Manx and Scots and Irish folk sticking together and collaborating. Maybe that's a kind of romantic nationalism of its own, but there's community in it.
September 13, 2023 at 11:33 AM
That's exactly why I find it interesting! I really like seeing Finns and Estonians support Livonians, and I like Welsh and Cornish and Breton and Manx and Scots and Irish folk sticking together and collaborating. Maybe that's a kind of romantic nationalism of its own, but there's community in it.
I think that for Germanic tribes, "Fenni" initially probably meant whatever Finnic-speaking tribe they met or heard about, including Estonians and Livonians, and that's the view in Tacitus's work.
Starting from the 8th century, the Norse started to travel more and acquired more detailed knowledge.
Starting from the 8th century, the Norse started to travel more and acquired more detailed knowledge.
May 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think that for Germanic tribes, "Fenni" initially probably meant whatever Finnic-speaking tribe they met or heard about, including Estonians and Livonians, and that's the view in Tacitus's work.
Starting from the 8th century, the Norse started to travel more and acquired more detailed knowledge.
Starting from the 8th century, the Norse started to travel more and acquired more detailed knowledge.
Well, yes, but I don't think the Livonians or whoever would have agreed that they lived in a wasteland full of roaming threats. In D&D, those views of the frontier become true (sort of, sometimes).
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Well, yes, but I don't think the Livonians or whoever would have agreed that they lived in a wasteland full of roaming threats. In D&D, those views of the frontier become true (sort of, sometimes).
Lithuanians, against the Livonians. The *other* battle on the ice.
October 20, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Lithuanians, against the Livonians. The *other* battle on the ice.
Vairāk par vārdu un tā izrunu meklējiet livonian.tech/meklesanas-r..., ierakstot vārdu “käbā”.
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “käbā”.
#līvõkēļ
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “käbā”.
#līvõkēļ
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Vairāk par vārdu un tā izrunu meklējiet livonian.tech/meklesanas-r..., ierakstot vārdu “käbā”.
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “käbā”.
#līvõkēļ
To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “käbā”.
#līvõkēļ
I wrote a little introduction to this, exploring the continuing creativity, despite profound historic struggles, in two smaller languages of Latvia. Latgalian has faced repeated press bans, while Livonians saw their home militarised and placed off-limits
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
Livonian and Latgalian Poetry — The Dial
Poems from two threatened languages in Latvia.
www.thedial.world
December 11, 2024 at 9:26 AM
I wrote a little introduction to this, exploring the continuing creativity, despite profound historic struggles, in two smaller languages of Latvia. Latgalian has faced repeated press bans, while Livonians saw their home militarised and placed off-limits
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
Other Finnic peoples in the area are Veps, Karelians, Livonians, and Ests.
Livonians have gone extinct. Izhorians, I think, might have gone extinct. Veps are going extinct.
Karelians represent ~5% of the population of Russian Karelia, thanks to Stalin.
Livonians have gone extinct. Izhorians, I think, might have gone extinct. Veps are going extinct.
Karelians represent ~5% of the population of Russian Karelia, thanks to Stalin.
March 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Other Finnic peoples in the area are Veps, Karelians, Livonians, and Ests.
Livonians have gone extinct. Izhorians, I think, might have gone extinct. Veps are going extinct.
Karelians represent ~5% of the population of Russian Karelia, thanks to Stalin.
Livonians have gone extinct. Izhorians, I think, might have gone extinct. Veps are going extinct.
Karelians represent ~5% of the population of Russian Karelia, thanks to Stalin.