Since 1990, the area of the Klaipėda Region has formed part of the independent Republic of Lithuania, as part of Klaipėda and Tauragė counties. The southern...
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Klaipėda. According to data from the Department of Statistics, there are 212,302 permanent inhabitants (as of 2020) in the Klaipėda city and Klaipėda...
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Nations. After the Klaipėda Revolt in January 1923, the region was transferred to Lithuania on condition that it would abide by the Klaipėda Convention, signed...
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The Klaipėda Revolt took place in January 1923 in the Klaipėda Region (also known as the Memel Territory or Memelland). The region, located north of the...
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transferred to Poland, the Klaipėda Region formed a free city supervised by the League of Nations, annexed following the Klaipėda Revolt by Lithuania but...
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1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania (redirect from German occupation of Klaipėda)
in Klaipėda, allowing Germany to strengthen its influence in the region. In the spring of 1938 Adolf Hitler personally stated that gaining Klaipėda was...
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transfer of the Klaipėda Region to Lithuania, in May 1924. The Klaipėda Convention contained the Statute of the Klaipėda Region, which was akin to regional...
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Trial of Neumann and Sass (category Klaipėda Region)
17,730 people departed from the Klaipėda Region. Lithuania's acquisition of the Klaipėda Region damaged the region's economy and resulted in growing unemployment...
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March 1939, demanding the surrender of the Klaipėda region to German control. Ribbentrop vowed that if Klaipėda was not ceded to Germany peacefully, it "will...
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Kaišiadorys and Lazdijai. After the Klaipėda Region was acquired in 1923, it was divided into three counties (Klaipėda, Šilutė and Pagėgiai). That way the...
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Klaipėda Region, which was transferred to the Lithuanian SSR in 1947. By 1945, there were only about 20,000 inhabitants left in the Klaipėda Region,...
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Former eastern territories of Germany (section East Prussia, including Warmia, and the Klaipėda Region)
transferred to Poland, the Klaipėda Region formed a free city supervised by the League of Nations, annexed following the Klaipėda Revolt by Lithuania but...
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large scale LNG import terminal (Klaipėda LNG FSRU) in the Baltic region was built in port of Klaipėda in 2014. The Klaipėda LNG terminal was called Independence...
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Landeshauptmann (section Klaipėda Region)
vacant. The Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland), which was dissected from East Prussia after World War I and annexed by Lithuania in the Klaipėda Revolt of...
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informed the signatories of the Klaipėda Convention about those demands since technically, Lithuania could not transfer Klaipėda without the signatories' approvals...
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Nazi party in the Klaipėda Region. The Union of Christian Socialist Workers of the Memel Region was registered on 1 June 1933 in Klaipėda, known in German...
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became part of the Russian SFSR, and the constituent counties of the Klaipėda Region in the Lithuanian SSR) and the People's Republic of Poland (the Warmian-Masurian...
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and appointed executive branch (the Klaipėda Directorate). The administration and operation of the port of Klaipėda was entrusted to a three-member Harbor...
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silent", may refer to: Memel, East Prussia, Germany, now Klaipėda, Lithuania Memelburg, (Klaipėda Castle), the Ordensburg in Memel, a castle built in 1252...
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low profile in the controversy on affairs in the Klaipėda Region. With Lithuania ceding Klaipėda Region with effect of 22 March 1939, after the German ultimatum...
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landlocked. Its capital is Klaipėda. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Klaipėda County remains as the territorial...
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radio navigation beacon. Scheduled commercial air service for the Klaipėda region is provided at Palanga International Airport, located 30 kilometers...
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Voivodeship in Poland, the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia and the southern Klaipėda Region in Lithuania. The territory was also inhabited by Scalovians, a tribe...
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Cultural regions of Lithuania (redirect from Region of lithuania)
Samogitian), some of which are subdivided into subdialects.[citation needed] No region, except for Samogitia, has ever been a political or an administrative entity...
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declining during WWII) Klaipėda Region Christian Socialists Workers' Union (German-Lithuanian National Socialist party of the Klaipėda Region) American Nazi Party...
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Erdmonas Simonaitis (category Klaipėda Region)
particularly active in the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) and advocating its union with Lithuania. During the staged Klaipėda Revolt of 1923, he headed...
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Gabriel Jean Petisné (category Klaipėda Region)
French lawyer and commissioner of the Klaipėda Region before its incorporation into Lithuania after the Klaipėda Revolt. Gabriel Jean Petisné was born...
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Ludwig von Mises Institute. pp. 24–27. ISBN 0-945466-22-6. "History of Klaipėda (Memel) | True Lithuania". www.truelithuania.com. Archived from the original...
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Kaliningrad Oblast (redirect from Kaliningrad Region)
language and having other customs than theirs. The Memel Territory (Klaipėda region), formerly part of northeastern East Prussia as well as Prussian Lithuania...
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Jonas Budrys (section Klaipėda Revolt)
Klaipėda Region in early January 1923. After taking control of Klaipėda on 16 January, he organized a local army from the inhabitants of the region....
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