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	Lithuania - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Republic of Lithuania (in Lithuanian, Lietuva) is a republic in Northeastern Europe.
		Lithuania has since sought closer ties with the West and so became a member of NATO on 29 March 1999 and of the European Union on 1 May 2004 coming back to that major goal to be a part of West and Europe of King Mindaugas in 1254.
		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.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /lithuania.htm (1216 words)

	Mindaugas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is known, that for this occasion Catholic Cathedral was built, and that Mindaugas and his wife Morta were crowned by order of pope Innocentius IV.
		He and his wife Morta were baptized around 1252 by the bishop of Kulm (now Chelmno) in the presence of the Master of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword.
		While most of Lithuanian grand dukes from Jogaila onward reigned also as kings of Poland, their titles remained separate, and Mindaugas was the only King of Lithuania, recognized as such by Western European rulers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mindaugas (369 words)

	Peace Corps \| World Wise Schools \| Lesson Plans \| Teacher Guides \| Lithuania
		It is bound by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the southwest, Kaliningrad OBlast (a Russian territory) to the southwest, and the Baltic Sea to the west.
		Lithuania was forced to agree to the stationing of Soviet troops on its territory.
		Lithuania is an industrialized country with 69 percent of the population living and working in the cities and 22 percent of the labor force employed in agriculture.
	www.peacecorps.gov /wws/guides/lithuania/lithoverview.html (3124 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Lithuani Journal
		Lithuania is unwilling to acknowledge its own role in the extermination of its Jewish population, preferring to present itself as the innocent and helpless victim of both Soviet and Nazi aggression.
		Lithuania's chief EU negotiator, Petras Austrevicius, said there were no doubts as to the result of the vote, but there was some anxiety about the turnout.
		Lithuania is one of 10 mainly former-communist countries on course to join the EU next year.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Europe/Lithuania (4169 words)

	LITHUANIA
		Lithuania is a picturesque country, situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and bordering Latvia on the north, Belorus on the east, and Poland on the south.
		The capital of Lithuania is Vilnius, founded in the 13th century and widely known for its contrasting architectural monuments of Western and Eastern influence.
		Lithuania is among the developed areas of the world, with 69% of the population living in the cities and 22% of the labor force employed in agriculture, while the rest earn their livelihood from industrial, scientific, and commercial activities.
	www.javlb.org /lithuania.html (2481 words)

	World InfoZone - Lithuania Facts
		Lithuania is one of three countries known as the "Baltic States".
		Lithuania's largest lake is the Druksiai (44.5 sq km), the longest is the Asveja (21.9 km) and its deepest lake is the Tauragnas (60.5 m).
		Lithuania was the last country in Europe to be converted to Christianity.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Lithuania (452 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: 2007-10-15)
		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)

	www.Lietuva.lt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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).
		Lithuania was obligated to implement an extraordinary regime of autonomy within the area.
		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)

	AllRefer.com - Lithuania - Introduction \| Lithuanian Information Resource
		Lithuania's relatively small ethnic minorities, of which the Russians and the Poles are the most significant, have been easier to accommodate.
		Lithuania's GDP grew by an estimated 0.6 percent in 1994; a growth rate of 3 percent in 1995 was predicted.
		In Lithuania the refusal of Prime Minister Slezevicius to resign after he was implicated in a banking scandal impelled President Brazauskas to ask the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, to vote in February 1996 on the dismissal of Slezevicius from office.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/lithuania/lithuania5.html (3344 words)

	Mindaugas II of Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mindaugas II of Lithuania was a king-elect in 1918.
		The Lithuanian Council elected on July 9th, 1918 Wilhelm Herzog von Urach, Graf von Württemberg (1864-1928), to king of Lithuania.
		Since Germany in the end of 1918 was on her way to loose the war, on November 2nd, 1918 Lithuania rapidly changed her constitution to a republic.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Mindaugas-II-of-Lithuania.htm (149 words)

	Lithuania
		Lithuania emerged as a larger state in the middle of the 13th century through a union of Baltic territories with Mindaugas becoming the state's first Grand Duke.
		During nearly half a century of Soviet rule, Lithuania was deprived of nearly a quarter of its population through these deportations, or in labour camps and prisons.
		Lithuania was one of the first republics to break away from the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse in 1991, although a declaration of Lithuania's independence had already been proclamed by parliament a year earlier on March 11th, 1990.
	www.tourism.lt /lietuva/lietuva.htm (3908 words)

	Lithuania : History
		With the rise of the medieval lords in adjacent Prussia and Russia, Lithuania was constantly subject to invasion and attempted conquest.
		As a result, the Democratic Labor party (DLP; the former Communist party of Lithuania) won a majority of seats in the Seimas in February 1992, and in November 1992 Algirdas Brazauskas, the DLP leader, was elected president with 60 percent of the vote.
		Lithuania and Belarus signed a mutual friendship treaty in February and in the same month Lithuania concluded a free-trade agreement with Ukraine.
	www2.omnitel.net /ramunas/Lietuva/lt_history.shtml (1821 words)

	HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The first written mention of Lithuania was in the Annales Quedlinburgenses in 1009 A.D. The first Lithuanian state was established by the Grand Duke Mindaugas in 1230.
		Lithuania was occupied by the Soviets in 1940 and then overrun by Nazi Germany in 1941.
		After the Moscow putsch collapsed, Lithuania won international recognition and was admitted to the United Nations on Sept. 17, 1991.
	neris.mii.lt /history/history.html (632 words)

	Articles - List of monarchs who lost their thrones or abdicated in the 20th century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sri Ratu Anak Agung Panji Sakti II Raja of Buleleng abdicated in 1950.
		Paduka Sri Sultan 'Abdu'l-Rahman II Mu'azzam Shah ibni al-Marhum Raja Muhammad Yusuf al-Mahdi, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Lingga, Riau, was deposed in absentia in 1911.
		Maharaja Raja Ramaraja Sri Patmanabha Dasa Vanchi Pala Bala Rama Varma II (Sri Chithira Tirunal), Kulasekhara Kiritapati Manney Sultan Bahadur, Shamsher Jang, Maharaja of Travancore, was deposed in 1971.
	www.lastring.com /articles/List_of_monarchs_who_lost_their_thrones_or_abdicated_in_the_20th_century (2959 words)

	The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
		Although Lithuania’s first king, Mindaugas, was crowned on July 6, 1253, some historians argue that the establishment of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy reaches back even farther.
		Wherever Mindaugas actually entered in the process of the unification of the GDL, much progress toward establishing the Grand Duchy was made under his rule.
		Within Lithuania proper, the old order of dukes was disappearing, a new class of nobles was forming and specialized artisans were growing in number.
	www.staff.washington.edu /baltic/papers/grandduchy.htm (3055 words)

	Lithuania
		Lithuania is situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and borders Latvia on the north, Belarus on the east and south, and Poland and the Kaliningrad region of Russia on the southwest.
		Lithuania - Lithuania, Lithuanian Lietuva, officially Republic of Lithuania, republic (1995 est.
		Lithuania: Bibliography - Bibliography See A. Senn, The Emergence of Modern Lithuania (1959); R. Misiunas and R. Lithuania: History - History Early History to the Nineteenth Century The pagan Liths, or Lithuanians, may have settled...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107730.html (745 words)

	LITUANUS. Vol. 36, No. 3 - Fall 1990
		Over the next two hundred years Lithuania grew to be one of the largest and most powerful nations in Europe with its borders extending from the Baltic Sea in the North to the Black Sea in the South with the Ukraine and Byelorussia coming under its protection.
		The National Council of Lithuania was established in September of 1917 and accepted the German offer inviting the German Duke William, Herzog von Urach to take the title of King Mindaugas II of Lithuania.
		This continued de jure recognition of the Republic of Lithuania by the United States serves more than a mere symbolic gesture of resistance to the Soviet Union's occupation, rather it serves an important function in reminding the world that the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is a continuing violation of international law.
	www.lituanus.org /1990_3/90_3_01.htm (4295 words)

	LMIPC - Composers - Mindaugas Urbaitis
		Mindaugas Urbaitis (b.1952) graduated from Prof.Dr. Julius Juzeliunas' composition class at the Lithuanian State Conservatoire (now Lithuanian Academy of Music) in 1975, and completed postgraduate studies in 1977.
		In 1979-96 Mindaugas Urbaitis was a member of the Board of Lithuanian Composers' Union, in 1991-96 - its chairman.
		Mindaugas Urbaitis re-composes traditional music or the works of other composers by building on the contexts of the recollections of an audience from the era of electronic technology, and the function of music.
	www.mic.lt /c_urbaitis.htm (592 words)

	Articles - Mindaugas II of Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mindaugas II of Lithuania (3 March 1864, Monaco - 24 March 1928, Rapallo, Italy) was a King-elect in 1918.
		HSH Wilhelm Karl Florestan Gero Crescentius Duke von Urach, Count von WÃ¼rttemberg was the son of Duke Wilhelm von Urach and his wife, Princess Florestine de Monaco, daughter of Florestan I of Monaco.
		Since Germany in the end of 1918 was on her way to lose the war, on November 2nd, 1918 Lithuania rapidly changed her constitution to a republic.
	www.suntik.com /articles/Mindaugas_II_of_Lithuania?mySession=326675c16fe7225ef45dc1febee68579 (303 words)

	Augustinas Voldemaras
		On his return to Lithuania, Voldemaras was invited to join the Taryba, a group which had formed to establish a Lithuanian government, not only to govern the country, but also to negotiate with Germany and other foreign powers.
		He refused at first, stating that he resented the fact that Lithuania was being considered merely a part of the Polish question, but on May 10 he appeared before the full committee requesting recognition of Lithuania as completely independent of Russia and Poland.
		In post-war Lithuania there were speculations that he may have been a member of the NKVD (the Bolshevik secret police), and, therefore, had nothing to fear.
	www.lituanus.org /1984_3/84_3_06.htm (4112 words)

	1000Countries.com: Lithuania II: lithuania, LITHUANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lithuania was the last pagan country in Europe to accept Christianity.
		COUNTRY AND PEOPLE(back to top) Lithuania is a picturesque country, situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and bordering Latvia on the north, Belorus on the east, and Poland on the south.
		The capital of Lithuania is Vilnius, founded in the 13th century and...
	www.1000countries.com /countries_of_the_world/lithuania_2.html (2330 words)

	The Lithuanian Word. History. Kazimieras Buga ( Būga )
		When part of the University of St. Petersburg moved to Perm', he was appointed assistant professor there From July 1,1916, and in 1918 he was promoted to associate professor.
		When the revolution began, he moved to Tomsk, and from there he returned to Lithuania at the end of August, 1920.
		On settling in Lithuania, he began at once preparing an extensive Lithuanian dictionary for publication, but from Feb. 16, 1922, he had almost sole responsibility for the basic courses in Baltic linguistics and comparative Indo-European linguistics at the newly founded University of Kaunas.
	www.spaudos.lt /Spauda/K_Buga.en.htm (1045 words)

	Lithuania
		Lithuania is at the centre and crossroads of Europe.
		Sex, lies and Lithuania: a misinformation campaign by antichoice advocates threatens common sense health reforms.
		Privatization and Democratization in Lithuania: A Case Study of Who Benefits in Siauliai.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107730.html (844 words)

	Lithuania
		1230 Mindaugas united Lithuanian tribes to resist attempted invasions by German and Livonian Teutonic Knights, and adopted Christianity.
		1941 Lithuania revolted and established own government, but during World War II Germany again occupied the country and 210,000, mainly Jews, were killed.
		Locator map for the European country of Lithuania.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/lithuania.html (790 words)

	Mindaugas articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mindaugas articles and news from Start Learning Now
		This raised a huge opposition and the Baltic peoples continued to resist religious conversionconversion to Christianity, and after defeat by pagan forces in 1260, Mindaugas renounced Christianity.
		While most of Lithuanian grand dukes from Jogaila onward reigned also as Monarchkings of Poland, their titles remained separate, and Mindaugas was the only King of Lithuania, recognized as such by Western European rulers.
	www.startlearningnow.com /Mindaugas.htm (458 words)

	Bank of Lithuania
		To be issued in the second quarter of 2006.
		Coin dedicated to the Palace of the Rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
		50 litas coin devoted to the 5th Anniversary of the reestablishment of the Republic of the Lithuania
	www.lbank.lt /eng/banknotes/commemorative.html (806 words)

	Talk:Lithuania - IBWiki
		I know we established that interwar Lithuania was a republic, but I found something very interesting and possibly useful.
		Since there Germany did was NOT on her way to lose the war, I can see any reason why Lithuania would have developed into a republic.
		This page was last modified 20:32, 17 Feb 2005.
	ib.frath.net /w/Talk:Lithuania (129 words)

	Articles - Abolished monarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The monarchy of Portugal was abolished prior to World War I.
		The monarchies of Russia, Turkey, Germany, Hungary and Austria were abolished in the aftermath of World War I. Those of Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and Italy were abolished in the aftermath of World War II.
		In the end of World War I, monarchies were planned for the Grand Duchy of Finland (VÃ¤inÃ¶ I of Finland), and for Lithuania (Mindaugas II of Lithuania), with a protectorate-like dependency of Germany.
	www.scannera.com /articles/Abolished_monarchies (483 words)

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