By: Ardis E. Parshall - December 05, 2016 A small population of Swedish-speaking people with roots in today’s Sweden and Finland have been among the residents of the tiny nation of Estonia since the 13th century. Estonia was ruled by Sweden in parts of the 16th and 17th centuries, and, except for brief periods of independence, was dominated by Russia (contested by Germany in the early 20th century) until the fall of the Soviet Union i...
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