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Lithuania history
Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to this site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta. Some scholars believe that Lithuanians inhabited the Baltic area as early…
Short LITHUANIA history
Where the Sesupe and Nemunas rivers flow There is our country, lovely Lithuania / Maironis / Lithuania is a small plot of land at the Baltic Sea. The whole west…
Lithuania History | Lonely Planet World Guide
The ancestors of the modern Lithuanians were known as Balts and probably reached the area from the south-east around 2000 BC. By the 12th century the Balt peoples were split…
The Castle of Voruta
The castle of Voruta was one of the most important castles during the reign of the first and the only crowned King of Lithuania Mindaugas (1238–1263). Here Mindaugas defended himself…