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	Antanas Smetona was born in the village of Uzulenis of the present Ukmerge District on August 10, 1874
		Antanas Smetona was born in the village of Uzulenis of the present Ukmerge District on August 10, 1874.
		Smetona got actively involved in the activities of Lithuanians, belonged to the Lithuanian Democratic Party, which he represented in the Great Seimas and was elected into its Presidium.
		Smetona, not elected to the Seimas, got engaged mostly in journalism: edited the newspapers of the Party of National Progress, Lietuvos balsas (The Voice of Lithuania), Lietuviskas balsas (The Lithuanian Voice), Vairas (The Rudder) and many others.
	www.ktl.mii.lt /prezidentai/Smetona_e.html (0 words)

	Antanas Smetona - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Born in the village of Užulėnis, Taujėnai rural district of Ukmergė county, Antanas Smetona was sent to the primary school in Taujėnai.
		Antanas Smetona was one of the leaders of the coup d'état of 1926, and became President on December 17, of that year.
		Smetona died in a house fire in Cleveland, on January 9, 1944, and was buried there.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Antanas_Smetona (1193 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During the first meeting on September 24, Antanas Smetona was elected as the chairman of the council.
		Smetona was succeeded by Stasys Šilingas as the chairman.
		Antanas Smetona, as the chairman of the council, became the first president.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Council_of_Lithuania (1422 words)

	Antanas Smetona and The Nationalist Movement
		The "new age" began on Dec.17, 1926 with a military coup d'etat led by Antanas Smetona and the Nationalist Movement.
		Smetona and his Nationalist regime was obsessed with both patriotism as well as nationalism.
		Smetona's authoritarian and nationalist regime came to a dramatic end when he was forced to flee Lithuania on June 15,1940 after the invasion of the Communist Russia.
	www.bu.edu /econ/faculty/kyn/newweb/economic_systems/NatIdentity/FSU/Baltics/Lithuania/smetona_l.htm (0 words)

	AllRefer.com - Antanas Smetona (Baltic States, History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		After the military coup (Nov., 1926) against the Socialist government, Smetona was elected president with Augustin Voldemaras as premier.
		Parliamentary government was suspended, and in 1929 Smetona forced Voldemaras to resign and assumed full dictatorial power.
		After Lithuania was incorporated (1940) into the USSR, Smetona fled to Germany and then (1941) to the United States, where he died.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Smetona.html (205 words)

	Antanas Merkys at AllExperts
		Antanas Merkys (, 1888 in Bajorai, near SkapiÅ¡kis, Lithuania â" March 5, 1955 in Vladimir Oblast, Russia) was President of Lithuania (1940).
		From 1923 he was secretary of commissioner of the government in the KlaipÄ—da Region, Antanas Smetona.
		With no approval of the major part of the government and the commander of the army, Smetona temporarily turned duties of President over to Prime Minister Antanas Merkys and on June 15 he and his family retreated secretly to Germany and then to Switzerland.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/an/antanas_merkys.htm (480 words)

	Antanas Smetona - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in the village of Užulėnis, Taujėnai rural district of Ukmergė county, Antanas Smetona was sent to Taujėnai Primary School, had private tutor in Ukmergė and Liepaja (Latvia).
		The majority of the government and the commander of the army did not concur with this proposal, and Smetona temporarily turned over the duties of President to Prime Minister Antanas Merkys, and on June 15 he and his family secretly left for Germany and then on to Switzerland.
		Smetona died in a fire in Cleveland on January 9, 1944 and was buried there.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Antanas_Smetona (1101 words)

	Antanas Smetona was born in the village of Uzulenis of the present Ukmerge District on August 10, 1874
		Smetona wrote that the most important goal of the Lithuanian nation was the reestablishment of an independent Lithuanian state.
		Smetona was one of the most prominent Lithuanian publicists and best stylists.
		Smetona was buried in the Cleveland cemetery (the USA).
	neris.mii.lt /prezidentai/foto/Smetona_e.html (1068 words)

	Lietuvos Aidas - About Us
		The founder and editor of it was the first (and future) president of Lithuania Antanas Smetona.
		The well known poet and publicist, the signatory of independence act Sigitas Geda, political analyst Vilius Litvinavièius, also the well known journalists Vytautas Þeimantas and Linas Jonuðas work in the newspaper.
		Professor Ona Voverienë, doctor of social sciences Antanas Petrauskas, publicist Algimantas Zolubas, famous political analyst Èeslovas Iðkauskas, famous publicist in our emigration Vilius Braþënas contribute in the newspaper.
	www.aidas.lt /about.htm (0 words)

	Lithuania : Government : Presidents of Lithuania : A. Smetona (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the very first days while in Vilnius A. Smetona got actively involved in the activities of Lithuanians, belonged to the Lithuanian Democratic Party, which he represented in the Great Seimas and was elected into its Presidium.
		In 1935 the first volume of A. Smetona's new collected works Pasakyta parasyta (Speeches and Statements) was published, the second volume was also prepared for publication, but there was no time for publishing it before the Soviet occupation.
		Smetona was buried in the Cleveland cemetery (the USA).
	www2.omnitel.net /ramunas/Lietuva/lt_government_presidents_smetona.shtml (1085 words)

	NO FLOWERS FOR SMETONA. OHIO CRYPT HOLDS REMAINS OF FIRST LITHUANIAN PRESIDENT
		Smetona was able to successfully flee Lithuania when the USSR invaded the country on June 15, 1940, being the only President to do so from among the three Baltic Republics.
		Smetona eventually was allowed to settle in the United States as a private citizen, and delivered speeches on national radio and to communities to promote Lithuanian independence.
		The faceplate of the crypt of Sofija Smetona.
	www.albionmich.com /history/histor_notebook/LMR215.shtml (661 words)

	Antanas Smetona: Viele Informationen uber Antanas Smetona an aligisassu.it
		Antanas Smetona: Viele Informationen uber Antanas Smetona an aligisassu.it
		Smetona engagiert sich schon während seiner Jugendzeit als litauischer Nationalist, indem er am Gymnasium gegen die orthodoxe Kirche protestiert und während seiner Studienzeit litauische Bücher verbreitet.
		In der Folge ist Smetona nicht in der Politik tätig, sondern arbeitet als Journalist und als Professor an der Universität.
	www.aligisassu.it /a/an/antanas_smetona.html (376 words)

	The Decision of the Lithuanian Government to Accept the Soviet Ultimatum of June 14, 1940 - Thomas Remeikis
		The report of the deliberations by the principal decision-maker, the President of the Republic Antanas Smetona, is taken as a basis for analysis.
		President Antanas Smetona, who left the country on June 15, 1940 (for a while he was interned in Germany, finally he was allowed to move on to the United States, where he died in Cleveland in 1944), wrote a Pro Memoria between July 1 and 25, 1940, while he was interned in East Prussia.
		Smetona viewed (political parties and their activities as destructive of national unity, their legal existence was prohibited by law (although informal activity of the parties was tolerated).
	www.lituanus.org /1975/75_4_02.htm (8240 words)

	1938: Lithuania - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		Antanas Smetona, the 64-year old President was reelected on Nov. 14, for his fourth seven-year term.
		With a short interruption Smetona has held the Presidency since the resurrection of Lithuania in 1919.
		Smetona probably more than any other individual is responsible for the rebirth of Lithuanian nationalism.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461500494/1938_Lithuania.html (890 words)

	Book Review: Lithuania in European Politics
		Alfonsas Eidintas is among the first post-Soviet Lithuanian historians to approach the complex life and times of Antanas Smetona in a scholarly and rational way.
		Antanas Smetona simply did not fit into the hallowed pantheon of past Lithuanian rulers, such as Vytautas the Great, Gediminas, Kestutis, Mindaugas or even Jogaila.
		Many thought Smetona was a weak and pusillanimous leader who had brought the country to ruin, a frocked former employee of a Polish bank in Vilnius who deserted his country in a time of tribulation, and died ignobly allegedly trying to retrieve his wife's fur coat from a Cleveland fire.
	www.lithuanian-american.org /bridges/issue3/michalskis.html (1251 words)

	1926, Dec. 17. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		COUP D'ÉTAT OF ANTANAS SMETONA, who arrested the president and cabinet and had himself made president, with Augustinas Voldemaras as premier.
		The constitution was suspended and the Seimas dissolved, Smetona becoming virtual dictator (new constitution, May 25, 1928) with the support of the Nationalist Union.
		He was later (May 1930) tried for high treason, exiled to a village, and ultimately convicted and imprisoned for a term of 12 years (June 1934).
	www.bartleby.com /67/2090.html (149 words)

	Lithuania - Independence, 1918-40
		Antanas Smetona, a former acting president, was elected to the presidency by a rump parliament.
		Political parties were outlawed and the press censored, but Smetona did not completely suppress civil rights.
		Smetona established Tautininkai, a nationalist political party, which reappeared in the parliament in 1991 after Lithuania regained independence from the Soviet Union.
	countrystudies.us /lithuania/2.htm (468 words)

	- Antanas Smetona - encyklopedia
		Antanas Smetona (urodzony 10 sierpnia 1874 - zmarł 9 stycznia 1944) litewski polityk, jeden ze współzałożycieli odrodzonej Litwy, premier i wieloletni prezydent-dyktator.
		Antanas Smetona urodził się w Uzulenis koło Wiłkomierza.
		Smetona po pierwszych demokratycznych wyborach pozostał poza sejmem, wycofał się do swego "Sulejówka" angażując się w pracę dziennikarską.
	katalog-stron.luman.biz /Antanas_Smetona (624 words)

	Augustinas Voldemaras
		He was replaced, not by way of resignation, but of expulsion, by the cabinet of M. Sleževičius."2 News leaked out that Smetona and Voldemaras were overthrown in a revolution, but the new government made it appear to be a routine reorganization.
		Smetona asked him to drop the matter and, as he was still minister of foreign affairs (even in the new cabinet), Voldemaras led the Lithuanian delegation at the conference.
		Though he and Smetona had formerly worked closely together and shared similar ideologies, their association was soon to be brought to an end, partly because of Voldemaras' intense involvement with Geležinis Vilkas.
	www.lituanus.org /1984_3/84_3_06.htm (4112 words)

	Lithuania - MSN Encarta
		On December 17, 1926, Lithuanian nationalists led by conservative statesman Antanas Smetona, working with the support of the Lithuanian army, engineered a coup d’état.
		All liberals and leftists were expelled from the Seimas, which then elected Smetona as president.
		In 1928 a new constitution was passed that formalized the new government structure in which Smetona ruled by decree.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555831_4/Lithuania.html (1530 words)

	Thunderstorm War - IBWiki
		In 3rd of September 1939, prime minister of Lithuania Antanas Smetona, due to the invasion of Germany to Veneda, issued a decree of partial mobilization, which increased the army size of Lithuania to about 250,000.
		The war officially did not end however, despite of the fact that the mainland Lithuania was conquered; the Naujojo Vilniaus apskritis in Africa and New Lithuania in Antarctica were still left untouched.
		The reason why Smetona retreated to New Lithuania rather than Naujojo Vilniaus apskritis was because the winter was still in place in Antarctica and it was understood that during such time the capture of New Lithuania might have been impossible for the Russians.
	ib.frath.net /w/Thunderstorm_War (1392 words)

	Careful Smetona \| TIME
		Valdemaras, known as the "Firebrand of the Baltic," was Lithuania's Premier and dictator from 1926 to 1929, when he was ousted by Smetona.
		In 1934 he was sentenced to twelve years' hard labor for an unsuccessful coup d'état, was later allowed to go to France where he has been living as an exile.
		Last week hard-pressed President Smetona decreed a six-month emergency period "for the protection of the state." Students at Kaunas, Lithuanian capital, rioted against the Government; anti-Semitic outbreaks occurred there and at Memel.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,772189,00.html (409 words)

	Who wants to be the Lithuanian president? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And with the Soviet occupation in 1940, the curtain was drawn on the presidency when Lithuania's interwar President Antanas Smetona was forced to emigrate from the country.
		After receiving a five-year renovation, the historical building opened its doors to visitors last summer, and on June 1, its status was changed from that of being a museum to belonging once again to the incumbent president himself.
		The majority of elderly Lithuanians are often prone to saying that prie Smetonos (during the times of President Antanas Smetona, who ruled from 1926 until 1940) everything was better.
	www.baltictimes.com /news/articles/10467 (1138 words)

	History of Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During WW I, the German Army occupied Lithuania in 1915, and the occupation administration allowed a Lithuanian conference to convene in Vilnius in September 1917.
		The conference adopted a resolution demanding the restoration of an independent Lithuanian state and elected the Lithuanian Council, a standing body chaired by Antanas Smetona.
		After a military coup on December 17, 1926, Nationalist Party leader Antanas Smetona became president and gradually introduced an authoritarian regime.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/lithuania.html (2193 words)

	Antanas Smetona - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Antanas Smetona (August 10, 1874 - January 9, 1944) was the first president of Lithuania from April 4, 1919 to June 19, 1920.
		He was also the last president of the country from December 19, 1926 to June 15, 1940 before its occupation by the Soviet Union, after seizing power in the 1926 coup.
		nl:Antanas Smetona pl:Antanas Smetona ru:Сметона, Антанас uk:Сметона Антанас
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Antanas_Smetona (107 words)

	cleveland.com:
		Advertise With Us Democratically elected Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona was forced to flee his country by the invading Soviet army in 1940.
		The Cleveland house where Smetona lived was consumed by fire on a frigid January morning in 1944.
		Smetona's wife, son, daughter-in-law and grandsons escaped, but Smetona, who had a cold, went back for his coat and lost his way in the dense smoke.
	www.cleveland.com /heritage/index.ssf?/heritage/more/lithuania/lithhome.html (149 words)

	NMR: School1
		In 1938 parents appealed to President A. Smetona and asked him to expand the school.
		The majority of the secondary school buildings in Lithuania are of the typical designs, but Ukmerges Antano Smetonos Vidurine Mokykla was built according to an individual project in 1938.
		The president Antanas Smetona took care of it himself.
	www.new-millennium-ride.org /scool36.html (824 words)

	Antanas Smetona (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Smetona engagiert sich schon während seiner Jugendzeit, indem er am Gymnasium gegen die orthodoxe Kirche protestiert und während seiner Studienzeit litauische Bücher verbreitet.
		In Vilnius gehört Antanas Smetona zu den ersten Mitgliedern der Litauischen Demokratischen Partei, in deren Präsidium er gewählt wird und die er dann auch im Seimas repräsentiert.
		Dezember 1926 wird Smetona, in Folge eines Militärputsches, an dem er maßgeblich beteiligt war, wiederum Präsident der Republik.
	www.netzwelt.de /lexikon/Antanas_Smetona.html (510 words)

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