Courland Governorate
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Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland or Governorate of Kurland, and known from 1795 to 1796 as the Viceroyalty of Courland, was an administrative-territorial unit and one of th
Courland governorate 1820
Ober Ost
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The Area of the Commander-in-Chief in the East, also known by its German abbreviation as Ober Ost, was an occupied territory encompassing German sections of the Eastern Front, during World War I. It w
Courland Governorate
…third partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1915, during the World War I, Courland was occupied by the German Empire and included into the Ober Ost military administration. While the local Baltic German nobility was cooperating with the German administration, several Latvian leaders from Courland…
A coin (2 kopek) from Ober Ost (1916), with inscription: Gebiet des Oberbefehlshabers Ost
Postage stamps from Ober Ost