Dago

Dago, also Dageida, or Hiiumaa, is Estonian marshy island, North of the Gulf of Riga, near the entrance of the Gulf of Finland. It is part of the West Estonian archipelago, in the Baltic Sea. It has an area of 989 sq km and is 22 km from the Estonian mainland. It came under Germanic crusaders in 1228, divided in 1254, between the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek and the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order, acting partly on behalf of the Hanseatic League, was part of Swedish Estonia from 1563 to 1721, after which it passed to the Russian Empire as part of the Governorate of Estonia, though Dagö's Swedish population kept most of their privileges, occupied during World War I by the Imperial German Army, in Operation Albion. After the war, in 1918, it became a part of independent Estonia. It was occupied by the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1940, by Nazi Germany in 1941, and by the USSR again in 1944. It remained under Soviet control until Estonia regained independence in August 1991.

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Dagobert I, Dagon, Daguerreotype, Dahan the attendant, Dahan the god, Dahan the Rudra, Dahanopal