Development stages of ethnic contact zones in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since the end of the 19th century
... ethno-geographical studies. The primary thresholds for this gradation are EMI values 0.2 and 0.4. This EMI scale was used, for example, in works [27], [28], [29], [30] and others. Formally, territories where the EMI is less than 0.2 can be classified as monoethnic, and those over 0.2 as ethnic contact zones (ECZs). However, due to the considerable number of counties in Estonia and Lithuania with an EMI value of less than 0.2, we proposed introducing an intermediate limit at EMI=0.1. This allows us to ...
