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Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
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Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
The
Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
(, , , ) is the name of a
duchy
in the
Baltic region
that existed from 1561 to 1569 as a vassal state of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
and from 1569 to 1726 the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, incorporated into Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Sejm in 1726, but on 28 March 1795, it was annexed by the
Russian Empire
in the
Third Partition of Poland
.
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