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  History of Lithuania Balts Slavs Slavonic Sarmatia Sarmatian Prussia East Nord Scandinavia Nation book
Samogitians (Zemaiciai), by their strength even excelled the strongest Baltic tribes.
Apart from the widest known Aukstaiciai and Zemaiciai peripheral links, also the northern, western, southern Lithuanian structures can be traced.
However, integration of each regional tribe into the common Lithuanian ethnos bore its own character, depending on the position of a tribe in the region and the level of its development.
www.lietuvos.net /istorija/east_balts/balts.htm   (3692 words)

  
 Telsiai Caunty
From the point of ethnographic view all the county is in Zemaitija and in every day’s life till nowadays people speak in Zemaiciai dialect.
From ancient times Zemaiciai were brave defenders of their land, who had courage, persistence and respect to their ancestors.
Tourists are interested in Zemaiciai museum Alka, countryside museum, Zemaiciai art museum, Mazeikiai museum of regional study, exposition of Lithuanian Art museum in Renavas estate, Militaristic museum in the territory where was a secret base of thermonuclear rockets, writers’ Zemaite, Satrijos Ragana, poet Vytautas Macernis, Juozas Vaickus, the theater founder, memorial museums.
zam.mch.mii.lt /Mpadaliniai/Telsiai_Caunty.en.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Customs
Zemaiciai (Samogitians), are particularly sedate, reserved and persistent.
The skirts of Zemaiciai women are mostly striped lengthways; Aukstaiciai skirts are checked.
Dzukai fabrics and clothes are notable for diversity of colour and pattern; sashes and ribbons were an inseparable part of their toilet, and they accompanied the Dzukai people from birth (used as swaddling-bands) to the grave (broad bands were used to lower the coffin into the tomb).
postilla.mch.mii.lt /Paprociai/paproc.en.htm   (1317 words)

  
 Lithuania: Test it, taste it!, Krantas Travel – tourism and travel agency
The National Park is famous for its natural values as well as for its rich and valuable cultural heritage.
The people of this area, called Zemaiciai, have preserved their dialect, customs and traits of character, buildings and original small architecture.
Kurtuvenai Regional Park is a wonderful land extending in wavy forests stud with strings of small lakes and brooks at the edge of Eastern Zemaiciai hill and the watershed of the Venta and the Dubysa rivers, close to Siauliai city.
www.krantas.lt /?en=1135870172   (717 words)

  
 AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Similarly, there are three uplands: the Zemaiciai (or Baltic), Aukstaiciai and eastern upland.
The average annual precipitation is 748 mm, ranging from less than 550 mm in the north to a maximum of more than 846 mm in the Zemaiciai hills.
Most of the rivers flow across the middle lowland and the western part of the Zemaiciai upland.
www.fao.org /ag/AGL/aglw/aquastat/countries/lithuania/print1.stm   (2772 words)

  
 Telsiai County
The centre of the county Telsiai is called the capital of Zemaitija from ancient times.
Today all speak in Zemaiciai dialect, live under that cultural spirit, which was given by history, they like the old dishes of Zemaiciai.
Tourists are interested in Zemaiciai museum Alka, countryside museum, Zemaiciai art museum, Mazeikiai museum of regional study, exposition of Lithuanian Art museum in Renavas estate, Militaristic museum in the territory where was a secret base of thermonuclear rockets, writers’ Zemaite, Satrijos Ragana, poet Vytautas Macernis, Juozas Vaickus, the theatre founder, memorial museums.
postilla.mch.mii.lt /Tevuzeme/telsiai.en.htm   (831 words)

  
 Zmudz/Samogitia
During the supremacy of the Teutonic Knights a part of the inhabitants had been baptized, but Christianity had not become firmly established.
Samogitia (Zemaiciai, Zemaitija, Polish, Zmudz), western part of Lithuania bordered by the Nevezis river in east, the Baltic Sea on the west, the Nemunas river on the south, and the Latvian border on the north.
Both the region and its inhabitants came to be called zemaiciai (lowlanders; nom.
www.kresy.co.uk /zmudz.html   (1733 words)

  
 Re: Apie istoriją ir pagalba ir apie Baranausko -- Apie Lietuvos praeiti, dabarti ir ateiti
Taig Sambiai (Prusijos) ir Zemaiciai ta pati tauta!
O zemaiciai >< sarmatai - getai > derinys gana tiketinas.
Vikingai,kad zemaiciai buvo sarmatai sito irodineti tikriausiai nereikia nes apie tai visi senieji istorijos autoriai raso,o sarmatai tai ugriu-finai,sarmatai tai sar+matai tai zmogus ziurintis primerktom akim.
www.voy.com /106026/55.html   (492 words)

  
 Zemaiciai Museum "Alka"
Permission to use funds of accumulated exponents, also accumulated written materials.
The museum contains collections of archaeological finds, numismatics, exhibits related to history and nature of the Zemaiciai area and fine art.
The museum opened in 1932 on the initiative of "Alka", a society devoted to the history of the Zemaiciai (Samogitians).
www.muziejai.lt /Telsiai/Telsiu_muziejus.en.htm   (697 words)

  
 Kretinga
The population of the District is 45-5 thousand, with 23 thousand (50 percent) living in Kretinga and Salantai towns; Lithuanians make up 99 percent of the District dwellers.
The western part of the District is located in a Pajuris (Maritime) Plain, whereas its eastern part lies on the western side of the Zemaiciai Upland.
The highest place, reaching 108 m above sea level is in the north-east, at the Zeimiai Village, while the lowest one - just 7 m above the sea - at the Palanga town outskirts.
www.kretinga.lt /index.php?fuseaction=Home&langparam=EN   (453 words)

  
 Information about Lithuania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Its consolidation was achieved by the formation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Other Baltic tribes inhabiting its territory - the Zemaiciai, northern Jotvingiai, southern Semigalians, southeastern Curonians, southern Selonians - are today's Lithuanians.
In XIIIth century and later Lithuania was settled by other nationalities as well: Poles, Germans, Russians, Tartars.
www.litnet.lt /lithuania/litinfo/pop.html   (196 words)

  
 Zemaitija National Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Zemaitija National Park was established in 1991 in an attempt to protect the typical Zemaiciai (Lowlands) landscape, some 150 old farmsteads, and a popular site of worship - Zemaiciu Kalvarija.
The park covers a territory of 20 thousand hectares.
The woods of Plateliai, Plokstine, Stirbaiciai and others are the habitat of a number of rare and protected bird species.
www.balticroads.lt /en/parks/zemaitija.asp   (212 words)

  
 Zemaiciai (Samogitia ) Art Museum :: park / PLUNGE / LITHUANIA <- Travel agency Visit Lithuania
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www.visitlithuania.net /travelportal/cgi/page.cgi?p=samogitia_park   (177 words)

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