Curonian Lagoon

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Curonian Lagoon

The Curonian Lagoon (or Bay

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
, Gulf

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
; , , , ) is separated from the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
by the Curonian Spit

Curonian Spit

The Curonian Spit is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune Spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea....
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In the 13th century, the area around the lagoon was part of the ancestral lands of the Curonians

Curonians

The Curonians were a people living on the Eastern shores of the Baltic who were eventually absorbed by the expansion of the Latvians and Lithuanians nations....
and Old Prussian people.

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The Curonian Lagoon (or Bay

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
, Gulf

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment....
; , , , ) is separated from the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

Curonian Spit

The Curonian Spit is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune Spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea....
.

In the 13th century, the area around the lagoon was part of the ancestral lands of the Curonians

Curonians

The Curonians were a people living on the Eastern shores of the Baltic who were eventually absorbed by the expansion of the Latvians and Lithuanians nations....
and Old Prussian people. Later it bordered the historical region of Lithuania Minor

Lithuania Minor

Lithuania Minor or Prussian Lithuania is a historical ethnography region of Prussia , later East Prussia in Germany, where Prussian Lithuanians or Lietuvininks lived....
. At the northern end of the Spit, there is a passage to the Baltic Sea, and the place was chosen by the Teutonic Knights

Teutonic Knights

The Order of the Teutonic Knights of St. Mary's Hospital in Jerusalem , or for short the Teutonic Order was a Germans Roman Catholic religious order....
in 1252 to found Memelburg castle and the city of Memel. The town is officially called Klaipeda

Klaipeda

Klaipeda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Curonian Lagoon where it flows into the Baltic Sea. As Lithuania's only seaport, it has ferry terminal connections to Sweden and Germany....
since 1923 when the Memel Territory was separated from the German Empire

German Empire

The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from the unification of Germany and proclamation of William I, German Emperor as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became Weimar republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of William II, German Emperor ....
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As the new Interwar border, the river that flows into the Curonian

Courland

Courland is one of the cultural and historical regions of Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland....
Lagoon

Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed Bar , reef, or similar feature....
near Rusne

Rusne

Rusne is a town in ?ilute district, Lithuania, located on the Rusne Island in the Nemunas Delta, 9 km south-west from ?ilute.Rusne was first mentioned in historical sources in 14th century....
was chosen. The river's lower 120km in Germany were called die Memel by Germans, while the upper part located in Lithuania was known as Nemunas River. The border also separated the peninsula near the small holiday resort of Nida, Lithuania ; the southern part of the Spit and the Lagoon remained in Germany until 1945.

This border remains today, as after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the southern end of the Spit and the German area south of the river, the part of East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
with the town Königsberg

Königsberg

K?nigsberg was after World War II in 1946 renamed Kaliningrad by the Soviet Union.The city was the Capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945....
located in Sambia

Sambia

Sambia or Samland is a peninsula in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea....
, became part an exclave

Exclave

An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity but that is not connected to it by land . The strip of land is surrounded by other political entities....
of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
called Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast forms the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, but it has no land connection to the rest of Russia....
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Curonian Lagoon

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