FTP name this mostly Lutheran country, independent (for now), with its capital at Riga.
Truly a hockey puck of history, it was subjugated by the Teutonic Knights in the early 13th century and the Poles in the late 1500's.  The Swedes took the sourthern portion, Livonia, in 1629 and the Russians got the rest from the Poles a century later.  In 1918 it declared independence and first let the Germans oust the Bolsheviks, then it ousted the Germans with British help only to be retaken by the U.S.S.R. 21 years laier.  FTP name this mostly Lutheran country, independent (for now), with its capital at Riga.
Truly a hockey puck of history, it was subjugated by the Teutonic Knights in the early 13th century and the Poles in the late 1500's.  
Latvia