Livonia is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 95,535 at the 2020 census, which ranked it as Michigan's ninth most-populated municipality. Livonia is a part of Metro Detroit and is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the city limits of Detroit, separated only by Redford Township. Originally organized as ...

Beginning in the 12th century CE, Livonia became a target for economic and political expansion by Danes and Germans, particularly for the Hanseatic League and the Cistercian Order.Around 1160, Hanseatic traders from Lübeck established a trading post on the site of the future city of Riga, which Bishop Albrecht von Buxthoeven founded in 1201. He ordered (1215) the construction of …

Livonia (en livonio, Līvõmō; en estonio, Liivimaa; en alemán y lenguas escandinavas: Livland; en letón y en lituano, Livonija; en polaco, Inflanty; en inglés arcaico, Livland, [1] o Liwlandia; en ruso, Лифляндия, Liflyandiya) alguna vez fue el área habitada por los livonios, pero en la Edad Media vino a designar un territorio mucho más extenso (Terra Mariana) controlado por la ...