The Period of Three Kingdoms

 

 

The flag of Tartu, allowed to use by the Polish King Stefan Bathory in 1584

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Keywords

after 25 years of the war the population had decreased by 50%;

at the end of the war, South Estonia under the rule of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom;

1600-1625 the new Livonian war between Poland and Sweden for the ruling power; destructions and plague;

in 1629 mainland of Estonia and Northern Latvia annexed to the Kingdom of Sweden, except Setumaa
(Swedish Governor General of the Estonian and Livonian provinces)