Swedish Livonia
Livonia was a
Dominion of
Sweden from the
1620s until
1721. Swedish
Livonia, which constituted the southern part of
Estonia and nortern part of
Latvia, represented the conquest of nearly all of what was
Polish Livonia and was completed by
1629. Even if Livonia and the city of
Riga was under Swedish control the territory was not formally ceded until the
Treaty of Oliva in
1660, where the minor part retained by the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was renamed
Inflantia.
Governors-General
The dominion was ruled by appointed Governors-General, but retained its own diet.
Sweden in turn ceded Livonia to
Russia at the
Treaty of Nystad in
1721.
See also: History of Sweden, Rise of Sweden as a Great Power, Swedish Empire, Realm of Sweden