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Member states of the Three Seas Initiative

  • LatviaLatvia was occupied three times in a single war. The Baltic country later sang its way back to freedom.
  • LithuaniaLithuania was once the largest country in Europe. Its grand duchy reached roughly 650,000 square kilometres.
  • EstoniaEstonia became the first country to allow nationwide binding Internet voting, in 2005.
  • PolandPoland vanished from the map for 123 years. Its neighbors partitioned it out of existence, yet it rebuilt.
  • RomaniaA cave in Romania holds the oldest known Homo sapiens remains in Europe.
  • CroatiaIn AD 305, a Roman emperor named Diocletian retired to a palace in Split, Croatia.
  • Czech RepublicThe Czech Republic holds the oldest ceramic figurine ever found, dated to 29,000 to 25,000 BC.
  • SloveniaSlovenia declared independence in 1991, and two days later the Yugoslav army moved in. The Ten-Day War ended in a truce.
  • AustriaAustria's 1938 vote on independence never happened. German troops crossed the border the day before it.
  • GreeceIn 508 BC, Cleisthenes set up the world's first democratic government in Athens.

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