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English: When the Livonian Wars where over, the Livonian Confederation got split up in a few duchies, like Courland and Semigallia, South Estonia and North Latvia where formed into the duchy of Livonia. And Sweden could take care of the rest of Estonia. These duchies stayed independent for 8 years. Thats when they became a part of Poland-Lithuania. They where still a duchy, but not independent. Later Jacob Kettler, from the Royal Family, wanted to start colonies. That was succesfull. They colonised West-Gambia and Tobago. It stayed for 8 years. The British taked Gambia and the Dutch have taken Tobago.