. . . . "\u0411\u0430\u043B\u0442\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043A\u0438\u0435 \u043D\u0435\u043C\u0446\u044B"@en . "Baltic Germans"@en . . . . . . "Deutsch-Balten"@en . . "The Baltic Germans (German: Deutsch-Balten, or Baltendeutsche) were mostly ethnically German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today form the countries of Estonia and Latvia. (Lithuania, now considered a Baltic state, followed a completely different historical path and some of its cities were home to a small German trading class, but never a German noble or ruling class.) The Baltic German population never made up more than 10% of the total."@en . .