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by Ivan Sache, 24 April 2001 At the end of the First World War
there were plans to create Baltic Duchy on the lands of Estonia
and Latvia. This had to be governed by Baltic Germans and would
be in personal union with Germany. Head of the state would have
been duke of Mecklenburg - Adolf Friedrich . On 5 November, 1918
temporary government under regent-council was created to prime
the declaration of duchy. But with the beginning of revolution
in Germany plans were stopped. 25 December regent-council
stopped the action. Source: Estonian Encyclopedia Erki
Kurrikoff, 14 April 2001 So this would have been a duchy within
the German Empire, am I right? Like all other duchies,
principalities, kingdoms etc. in Germany at the time, and with
Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg as duke but not as sovereign but
under the German emperor? Th