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爱沙尼亚是什么意思呢?大部分中国读者可能会迷惑。的确,它是欧洲东北部(靠近芬兰)的一个很小的国家,1991年出现在世界政治地图上的时候,那些没有到过爱沙尼亚的亚洲人几乎不会注意到它。现在,爱沙尼亚是一个独立的国家,作为欧盟的成员国,它的硬通货是欧元。但是,近几年以及在遥远的过去,爱沙尼亚总是被一些较强大的外来民族所占有(主要是德国人、俄罗斯人、斯堪的纳维亚人)。爱沙尼亚人被迫接受了基督教,在进行了激烈的反抗之后,13世纪中期,不得不接受日耳曼骑士和牧师强加给他们
What does Estonia mean? Most Chinese readers may be confused. Indeed, it is a small country in the northeastern part of Europe (near Finland) that was hardly noticeable by Asians who had not been to Estonia when they appeared on the political map of the world in 1991. Now Estonia is an independent nation. As a member state of the EU, its hard currency is the euro. However, in recent years and in the distant past Estonia has always been dominated by some of the more powerful foreign nations (mainly Germans, Russians, Scandinavians). Estonians were forced to accept Christianity, and after a fierce reaction, forced to accept them by the Germanic knights and pastors in the mid-13th century