Swedish Livonia
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Livonia (Swedish: Livland) was a dominion of Sweden from the 1620s until 1721. Swedish Livonia, which constituted the southern part of Estonia and northern part of Latvia (Vidzeme region), represented the conquest of the major part of what was the Polish-Lithuanian domain, known as Duchy of Livonia and was completed by 1629. Even if Livonia and the city of Riga was under Swedish control the territory was not formally ceded until the Treaty of Oliva in 1660, where the minor part retained by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was known as Inflantia (present-day Latgale region).
The territory in turn was conquered by Russia during the Great Northern War and formed the Riga Governorate. It was formally ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad in 1721.
[edit] Governors-General
The dominion was ruled by appointed Governors-General, but retained its own diet.
- Gustaf Horn (1652- )
- Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1655- )
- Axel Lillie (1661- )
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