Development stages of ethnic contact zones in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since the end of the 19th century
... ‘waves’ in ECZ development enabled us to pinpoint the main stages of development for the five ethnic contact zones previously outlined, using a graph of EMI dynamics. As an additional characteristic, the graphs show changes in the proportion of titular peoples to facilitate the task of distinguishing between the waves of titularization and detitularization (before the establishment of republics — waves of indigenization and deindigenization).
Research results and discussion
Figure 1 shows the EMI ...
