Editing History of Latvia (section)

===Provisional Land Councils===
{{Main|Provisional Land Council of Courland| Provisional Land Council of Latgale| Provisional Land Council of Vidzeme}}
After the [[February Revolution]] in the [[Russian Empire]], a majority of Latvians did not expect more for their country than a federated status in a Russian state. "Free Latvia in Free Russia" was the slogan of the day. During March 12–13, 1917 in [[Valmiera]] the Vidzeme Land Congress took place, which set up the Provisional Land Council of Vidzeme. Courland was occupied by Germans, who increasingly supported idea of creating a puppet [[Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1918)|Duchy of Courland and Semigallia]] in order to annex it to Germany. [[Latgalians (modern)|Latgalian]]-inhabited counties of the [[Vitebsk Governorate]] were demanding unity with other Latvian provinces (unification of Latgalian Latvians and Baltic Latvians), which came only after the Bolshevik revolution.