In 1202 Bishop Albert von Buxhoevden founded an Order of Knights to forcibly convert this region's native pagan tribes to Christianity.  
In 1202 Bishop Albert von Buxhoevden founded an Order of Knights to forcibly convert this region's native pagan tribes to Christianity.  The region was split at the Dvina River after Russia invaded the region in 1558 and captured Narva and Dorpat.  The region's protecting order was dissolved in 1561, two years after it had recognized Polish-Lithuanian sovereignty in return for protection.  Eventually ceded to Russia in the Treaty of Nystad, one cause of the Great Northern War was Charles XII's invasion of this territory. For 10 points, name this historical region that included nearly all of modern Latvia and Estonia.
In 1202 Bishop Albert von Buxhoevden founded an Order of Knights to forcibly convert this region's native pagan tribes to Christianity.  
Livonia