Courland

American  

[koor-luhnd] / ˈkʊər lənd /

Or Kurland

noun

1. a former duchy on the Baltic: later, a province of Russia and, in 1918, incorporated into Latvia.

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Courland British  

/ ˈkʊələnd /

noun

1. Latvian name: Kurzeme.  a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border

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Example Sentences

Peter Smith, 64, was on the Caribbean island with wife Jo and friends when he was attacked in Courland Bay on Friday morning.

From BBC

Between his marriage to Anna and attending the weird dwarf wedding, Frederick William, the Duke of Courland, drank a lot.

From Slate

The Duke in question was Ernst Johann von Biron, the Duke of Courland, for whom the palace was built between 1736 and 1740 by the Italian architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli as a summer residence.

From New York Times

Rupert went out in his boat to sound for the channel, and while thus occupied, came upon a ship belonging to the Duke of Courland, on the Baltic.

From Project Gutenberg

Courland, Ship from, 256, 258.

From Project Gutenberg