Specific to Narva, Wikipedia has a breakdown of its historical affiliation and invasion, which date back 1000s of years: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva https

Specific to Narva, Wikipedia has a breakdown of its historical affiliation and invasion, which date back 1000s of years: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Narva Of note, “The status of Narva was resolved in a July 1917 referendum, when the district population, at that time roughly equally divided between ethnic Russians and Estonians, voted to attach itself to the newly autonomous and soon to be independent republic of Estonia.”