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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1917 | |
| July 1 | |
| A Russian offensive on the Galician front began. | 1 |
| July 18–28 | |
| Battle of East Galicia. The Germans and the Austrians drove the Russians back and retook Halicz, Tarnopol, Stanislav (July 24–26), and Czernowitz (Aug. 3). | 2 |
| Sept. 3–5 | |
| The Germans captured Riga. | 3 |
| Oct. 11–20 | |
| The Germans, having overrun much of Latvia, conquered the Baltic Islands. | 4 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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