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	Lithuania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to do so, though Soviet forces unsuccessfully tried until August 1991 to suppress this secession, including an incident at Vilnius' TV Tower in January 13 night, 1991 that resulted in the death of 13 Lithuanian civilians.
		Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipėda lies at the narrow mouth of Kuršių marios (Curonian Lagoon), a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad.
		Prior to 1998, Lithuania was the Baltic state that conducted the most trade with Russia; however, the 1998 Russian financial crisis forced the country to orient toward the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lithuania (1904 words)

	Lithuania Minor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lithuania Minor (or Prussian Lithuania, Lithuanian Mažoji Lietuva and Prūsų Lietuva respectively) is one of five ethnographic regions of Lithuania.
		Lithuania Minor territory was comprised of the current Kaliningrad Oblast (excluding the city of Kaliningrad and its surroundings), a few territories in northern Poland as well as the following territories in modern-day Lithuania: the Klaipėda district municipality, the Šilutė district municipality, Klaipėda city, Pagėgiai municipality, and Neringa municipality.
		Lithuania Minor has a flag, which is a horizontal tricolor of green, white and red, first mentioned in 1660 (see Flag of Lithuania Minor).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lithuania_Minor (842 words)

	Lithuania (10/05)
		The Seimas (parliament) of Lithuania adopted a constitution on August 1, 1922, declaring Lithuania a parliamentary republic, and in 1923 Lithuania annexed the Klaipeda region, the northern part of Lithuania Minor.
		Urbanization increased from 39% in 1959 to 68% in 1989.
		Lithuania maintains foreign diplomatic missions in 60 countries on six continents, a consular post in one country that is not represented by an embassy, consular posts led by Honorary Consuls in 32 countries that are not represented by an embassy, and a special mission in one country without other diplomatic representation.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5379.htm (5169 words)

	Lithuania Minor
		Since 1660 Lithuania Minor has its own flag, which is made up of three equal horizontal bands: green on the top, white in the middle, and red in the bottom.
		Memel District 1920-1939 and the flag of Lithuania Minor are the same flag.
		The region of Lithuania Minor was a dependence of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia (Herzogtum Preussen, 1525-1701) and the Kingdom of Prussia (Koenigreich Preussen, 1701-1918).
	flagspot.net /flags/lt_maz.html (875 words)

	Mažoji Lietuva
		The neighboring states of Lithuania, Poland and Germany, as well as the Scandinavian states, are deeply interested in the demilitarization of the region...
		Lithuania Minor is situated in the northeastern part of former East Prussia where it borders on Lithuania Major or Proper.
		The area, the hydronyms of which are to be scrutinized, consists of Lithuania Minor (q.v.), Samia (q.v.) and their bordering regions, i.e., the northern parts of the former Old Prussian tribes, their tribe-lands of Varmia (q.v.), Notangia (q.v.) and Bartia (q.v.).
	www.mazoji-lietuva.lt /?lang=en (485 words)

	www.Lietuva.lt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		November 30, 1918 was the date, when the Act was passed by the National Council of Lithuania Minor, regarding the intent of the majority of the residents of Prussia (Lithuania Minor) to merge with the re-established State of Lithuania.
		February 16, 1923 was the confirmation date by the Ambassadors Conference of the League of Nations of the sovereignty of the Republic of Lithuania in the district of Klaipeda (Memel).
		The complaint filed was an accusation against Lithuania for using an excess of the limits of power in the governing of Klaipeda lands, and violation of the statutes on autonomy.
	www.lietuva.lt /index.php?Lang=5&ItemId=29460 (3546 words)

	Lithuania
		The state flag of the Republic of Lithuania is cloth consisting of three horizontal stripes: yellow (the upper), green (the middle) and red (the lower).
		During the Zalgiris battle, the flag of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was red, with white coat of arms, the Vytis, embroidered on it.
		On November 18 at the tenth session of its eleventh convention, the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSR was forced to change a chapter of the Constitution, and to grant the yellow-red-green flag the status of State flag.
	flagspot.net /flags/lt.html (2968 words)

	LITHUANIA HISTORY Travel Tour Information
		Lithuania began to recover only towards the end of the 19th century, the period known as the "spring of nations." A struggle for national culture and reinstitution of writing spread over the greater part of the country.
		The elected 20-member Council of Lithuania proclaimed the restitution of the independent state of Lithuania on the 16th of February, 1918, even though the German Army and authorities were still in control of the entire country.
		Initially, Lithuania was relegated to the German sphere of influence; however, on Lithuania's refusal to attack Poland as a German ally, it was transferred to the Soviet sphere of influence, in a second secret pact signed in Moscow on the 27th of September that same year.
	www.scantours.com /lithuania_history.htm (3152 words)

	EUROPA - Enlargement: Candidate Country - Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lithuania extends 373 kilometres from East to West and 276 from North to South, and is 65301 km², almost twice the size of the Netherlands.
		Lithuania consists predominantly of gently rolling plains (55% of the total land area) and extensive forests (30.3% of the country).
		Lithuania was invited to start the negotiations in 1999 on the basis of the European Commission's advice in its 1999 Regular Report on the progress made by the Candidate Countries.
	europa.eu.int /comm/enlargement/lithuania (4384 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Europe
		Soviet pressure and a complicated international situation forced Lithuania to sign an agreement with the U.S.S.R. on October 10, 1939, by which Lithuania was given back the city of Vilnius and the part of Vilnius region seized by the Red Army during the Soviet-Polish war; in return, some 20,000 Soviet soldiers were deployed in Lithuania.
		FOREIGN RELATIONS Lithuania became a member of the United Nations on September 18, 1991, and participates in a number of its organizations and is a signatory to other international agreements.
		Lithuania's suspension of two strongly ethnic Polish district councils on charges of blocking reform or disloyalty during the August 1991 coup had cooled relations with Poland, but bilateral cooperation has markedly increased with the holding of elections in those districts and the signing of a bilateral friendship treaty.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/eur/lithuania9408.html (4749 words)

	Council of Lithuania Minor Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lithuania Minor is the ethnic land of the Balts (Minor Lithuanians and Northern Prussians).
		In 1275-1283 Lithuania Minor was seized by the Teutonic Order (German Order of Knights – Deutscher Ritter-Orden), which prior to that had conquered the Southern Prussian lands and gave its state the name of Prussia (Germ: der Deutschordensstaat Preusen).
		After the collapse of the Teutonic Order, Lithuania Minor became birthplace of the first Prussian and Lithuanian books as well as hearth of standardization of the general Lithuanian language.
	www.mlrt.lt /eng (241 words)

	Lithuania (09/03)
		Lithuania's defense system is based on the concept of "total and unconditional defense" mandated by Lithuania's national security strategy.
		Lithuania also was invited to join the European Union on May 1, 2004, and in addition seeks membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other Western organizations.
		Lithuania maintains foreign diplomatic missions in 94 countries on six continents and consular posts in two countries that are not represented by an embassy.
	www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/l/30865.htm (4597 words)

	Historic chronology of Lithuania Minor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Grand Duke of Lithuania Algirdas and his brother Duke Kęstutis demand from Pope Innocent VI and, in 1358, from Gregory XI that the Order returns to Lithuania the patronymic Baltic lands of Gediminaičiai from Aistian Lagoon to the Alna river, which were the Kőnigsberg and Klaipėda regions.
		Uprising of the Klaipėda region –; the northern part of Lithuania Minor - which under the Treaty of Versailles (1919) was separated from Germany - unites it with the Lithuanian state.
		Council of Lithuania Minor, re-established in Fulda (West Germany), issues a Declaration on the Future of Lithuania Minor (Kőnigsberg region) within the Lithuanian state (The Act of Fulda).
	www.mlrt.lt /eng/mlis.html (1038 words)

	Society of Medieval Lithuania
		In Lithuania after Christening the evil spirit in Christian religion was given the name of Velnias, it proves that Velnias in the prechristian period and most probably in the last period of Christianity was strongly demonized (M.Gimbutienė), and this process of degrading Velnias started in the era of the Indo-European pronation (N.Vėlius).
		The material of Ipatij manuscript and Malala insertion speak rather comprehensively about Lithuania Pantheon structure however it is worth remembering that her we mention the official religion of royal and knightly court, about the religion of the army and the warriors that has specific features and very little minds peasant and land farmers religion.
		It is the horizon of death that makes the cuts the figures of the most important gods in Lithuania in the myth of Sovijus (Sovijus with his veneration of the dead foresters veneration of the main gods of the Lithuanian tradition).
	viduramziu.lietuvos.net /socium/pagonybe-en.htm (6515 words)

	Three Models of Standard Written Lithuanian Language in the 19th Century - Subacius
		Part of it belonged to Prussia (called Lithuania Minor); the rest of the area (called Lithuania Major) had been an independent state, but from the middle of the 16th century it formed a union with Poland.
		From the standpoint of written language in Lithuania Minor, a compact area, quite stable norms of the language had already been formed in the 17th century and had kept their shape up to the end of the 19th century and even longer.
		In Lithuania Minor written language was sufficiently stable at that time and nobody modeled it anew.
	www.lituanus.org /1997/97_1_02.htm (4070 words)

	Martynas Jankus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		(1858-1946), journalist, "Patriarch of Lithuania Minor", born in Bitenai, county of Pagegiai (formerly Ragaine), on Aug. 7, 1858.
		Ausra (q.v.) movement and his visit to Lithuania, Jankus became an ardent advocate of the reunification of Lithuania Minor with the mainland.
		In the Petrograd Lithuanian Convention in 1917 he expressed the will of the inhabitants of Lithuania Minor to merge with a restored State of Lithuania.
	mpkelias.mch.mii.lt /ASMENYS/jankus.en.htm (337 words)

	This page is about Vydunas
		This part of Lithuania has its specifics, since for hundreds of years it was a part of Prussia, while the rest of Lithuania belonged to Russian Empire.
		That is no wonder, however, since his teachings were one of the first of such kind in Lithuania and therefore not everyone could realize their real depth and value.
		At one time or another he had quite a number of supportes both in Lithuania Minor and in the mainland Lithuania.but he was mostly regarded as the fighter for Lithuanians’ rights and the rights of the Lithuanian language in the German-held parts of the country.
	www.geocities.com /vydunopuslapis/englishversion.htm (1071 words)

	Lithuania at the Paris World's Fair
		Nowhere else in the world is there a nation like Lithuania, where each book, each writing published in the native language is a forbidden thing, where everyone reading a book written in Lithuanian, even of the most innocent content, is persecuted by representatives of the Czar, is shut up in prisons, or exiled to Siberia.
		In Lithuania Minor, D. Žiaunius and Morta Žiauniūtė were asked to undertake preparations and to serve as Dr. Daumantas's assistants — Žiaunius as Treasurer and Žiauniūtė as Bibliographer.
		Those pieces were brought across the frontier from Lithuania to Tilsit by J. Lozoraitis, and Žiaunius and Žiauniūtė sent them to Paris, including with them pieces they had gathered in Lithuania Minor.
	www.lituanus.org /1982_4/82_4_03.htm (3313 words)

	Lithuania - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		During the interwar period, the constitutional capital of Lithuania was Vilnius, although the city itself was then ocupied by the Polish (see History of Vilnius for more details).
		In 1940, at the height of World War II, the Soviet Union occuppied and annexed Lithuania in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
		The largest and most populous of the Baltic states, Lithuania has around 99 km of sandy coastline, of which only about 38 km faces the open Baltic Sea.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Lithuania (2040 words)

	Lithuania Online: Government
		Seimas - Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania
		Embassy of Lithuania in Czech Republic and Hungary
		Embassy of Lithuania in Russia, Consulate in St.Petersbourg
	www.on.lt /hgov.htm (167 words)

	Publishing Department :. Klaipėda University
		Exodus and Genocide in Lithuania Minor during WWWII and in Post-war era
		The monography is geographical and historical study devoted to the territory, people, ethnography and history of the Lithuania Minor.
		The paper deals with the 1944 exodus of the inhabitants of the Lithuania Minor and their genocide in post WWII period.
	www.ku.lt /en/leidykla/tiltai/1998/4-5.php (1154 words)

	Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania
		Institutional education had an earlier start in the part of Lithuania, which was under the jurisdiction of Prussia, than in Lithuania Proper of the Grand Duchy.
		The schools in Lithuania Minor undertook the training of priests, teachers and administrators, who understood the language of the local people.
		The schools aided in the rapid Germanisation process within areas, which had been inhabited by Lithuanians in Lithuania Minor.
	www.smm.lt /en/edu_in_lit4.htm (440 words)

	Open-Air Museum of Lithuanian
		Rumsiskes is town in central Lithuania, 13 km east of Kaunas, on the right bank of the Nemunas river.
		During Lithuania’s independence (1918-1940) it served as the township seat.
		In 1966 was founded the Open-Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumsiskes.
	muziejai.mch.mii.lt /Kaisiadorys/Open-Air_muziejus.en.htm (481 words)

	Klaipeda Music Theatre
		It was Lithuania Minor where the first Lithuanian book (1547), the first hymnbooks (1566-70) and the first book of songs (1825) were published.
		At the end of the 19th century, as a result of the nationalist movement, Lithuanian Societies were founded and choirs organised, but only in 1924, when the Klaipeda District was annexed to Lithuania Proper did conditions become favorable for the creation of a professional Lithuanian art of music.
		In 1993, on the basis of the theatre orchestra, the chief conductor S. Domarkas founded the Symphony Orchestra of Lithuania Minor.
	www.randburg.com /li/klaimusi.html (762 words)

	Memel - Klaipeda
		This claim was partly accepted by Allied Supreme Council and by the Peace Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Germany had to cede to the Allies the Lower Nemunas (Germ.: Memel) area of Lithuania Minor.
		Chronology 1923 Jan 09 : A "Supreme Lithuania Minor Liberation Committee" [Vyriausias Mazosios Lietuvos Gelbejimo Komitetas / VMLGK - Chairman : Martynas Jankus (1858 - 1946)] already secretly established in 1922, assumed power in Heydekrug with the intention to unite the territory with Lithuania.
		Dietschmons (?)] A Convention between Germany and Lithuania was signed : in return for some economic advantages (a free zone in the harbor,...) and some financial compensation for the roads build during the Lithuanian period, Memel had to be returned to the German Empire.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Memel.html (1346 words)

	AllRefer.com - Soviet Union [USSR] - Lithuanians \| Soviet Union or USSR Information Resource
		The remaining part of Lithuania, known as Lithuania Minor, became part of Prussia.
		After the Lithuanian national revival of the nineteenth century emerged in Lithuania Minor, it spread to the rest of Lithuania.
		The largest city in Lithuania was Vilnius, the capital of the republic, with a population of about 582,000 in 1989.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/soviet-union/soviet-union98.html (843 words)

	Press - BaltiCCycle
		In 2004 we in Lithuania commemorate 100 years, that printing of books in Latin letters was re-allowed.
		In the times of the printing prohibit Lithuania belonged to the Russian Carist Empire and the print media came from “Lithuania Minor” or “Prussian Lithuania”, the part of Prussia (Germany) in which the majority of inhabitants were Lithuanians.
		In these territories most of the natural wealth of Lithuania is left, as well as all the original pure living conditions, in which the „book carriers” dreamt about the future of their country.
	www.bicycle.lt /en/main/press?ID=40 (489 words)

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