Swedish Livonia (Swedish: Svenska Livland) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from the 1629 until 1721. The territory, which constituted the southern part of modern Estonia and northern part of modern Latvia (the Vidzeme region), represented the conquest of the major part of the Polish-Lithuanian Duchy of Livonia during the 1600–1629 Polish-Swedish War. Parts of Livonia and the city of Riga was under Swedish control as early as 1621, and the situation was formalized in Truce of Altmark 1629, but the whole territory was not ceded until the Treaty of Oliva in 1660. The minority part of the Wenden Voivodeship retained by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was renamed the Inflanty Voivodeship ("Livonian Principality"), which today corresponds to the Latgale region of Latvia.
Riga was the second largest city in the Swedish Empire at the time.
The territory in turn was conquered by Russian Empire during the Great Northern War and formed the Governorate of Livonia. It was formally ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad in 1721, together with Swedish Estonia and Swedish Ingria.
Governors-General
The dominion was ruled by appointed Governors-General, but retained its own diet.
Military
Swedish infantry and cavalry regiments
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- Infantry regiments
- Cavalry regiments
Temporary cavalry regiments:
See also
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