Duchy of Trakai was a subdivision of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 14th and early 15th centuries. The Duke of Trakai was an important position...

capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and decided to build a castle in the location. This was how the Old Trakai Castle was built in Senieji Trakai. The...

trockie), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795. Trakai Voivodeship together...

certain that the Duchy of Trakai existed as the domain of Kęstutis at the beginning of his rule in 1337. It was a progenitor of the future Trakai Voivodeship...

Vytautas the Great, who died in this castle in 1430. Trakai was one of the main centers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the castle held great strategic importance...

campaign of the Crimean Peninsula in 1397, Vytautas brought the first Crimean Tatar prisoners of war to Trakai and various places in the Duchy of Trakai, including...

Každailis in 2003 using the historical symbols of Trakai. Dzūkija was part of the Duchy of Trakai and later Trakai Voivodeship from the 14th to late 18th century...

or 15 August 1382) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania. He was the Duke of Trakai and governed the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1342–1382, together with his...

for a job well done, Skirgaila received the Duchy of Trakai. When Jogaila was preparing for the Union of Kreva, Skirgaila was actively involved in the...

Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Voruta (Hypothetical) Kernavė Trakai Vilnius Lietuvos Brasta Minskas Mstislavlis Naugardukas Polockas Raseiniai Trakai Vilnius...

of Lithuania from Kernavė to Trakai (today's Senieji Trakai) and erected his brick castle. Senieji Trakai served as the capital of the Grand Duchy of...

death of his father Algirdas (Duchy of Vitebsk) Kęstutis (Duchy of Trakai and protectorate of Duchy of Samogitia) Vytautas Maria, married Dmitry of Tver...

1326. Politically, from the end of the 13th century, it comprised the Duchy of Vilnius/Lithuania and the Duchy of Trakai, and it is possible that the term...

centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county [pl] in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand...

brought from Vytautas' homeland (the Duchy of Trakai), and with a horseman – from other areas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Sigismund Korybut during...

half of Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights. Vytautas went to Prussia in seek of the support of the Knights for his claims, including the Duchy of Trakai, which...

first Tatar prisoners of war to Trakai and various places in the Duchy of Trakai, including localities near Vokė river just south of Vilnius. The first mosque...

southern shore. There are ruins of the little Orthodox church in Bažnytėlė Island. Trakai was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1321 to 1323...

overlordship of the Supreme Duke (dux supremus) in the person of the Polish monarch. Skirgaila was moved from the Duchy of Trakai to become prince of Kiev. Vytautas...

to Lithuania demanding the throne of the Grand Duke. Vytautas would be forced either to return to Duchy of Trakai or launch another civil war. The same...

except for Trakai. In 1385, Jogaila concluded the Union of Krewo with Poland, under which he married Jadwiga of Poland and became King of Poland as Władysław...

Poles living in the vicinity. Trakai was an area holding great significance in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Trakai region began to decline politically...

Duke of Trakai, it was an important defensive structure protecting Trakai and Vilnius, capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, against attacks of the...

Voivodeship Grand Duchy of Lithuania Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1569) Trakai Voivodeship Duchy of Trakai Duchy of Lithuania Kingdom of Poland Duchy of Masovia...

considered the ancestor of the family). Their seat was in the Samogitia and Trakai regions. Kęsgailos family members had been the Elders of Samogitia from 1412...

Dovydiškės, the Teutonic Knights raided the Duchy of Trakai and Samogitia twice. While raiding towards Trakai, the Teutonic Knights used bombards for the first...

ruler of the Duchy of Vilnius (did not include Duchy of Trakai), which is known since the second quarter of the 14th century, also was the Grand Duke of Lithuania...

proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas and later spread to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

Vytautas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania relocated one branch of the Crimean Karaites to Lithuania ordering to build them a town, called today Trakai. There...

administrative division of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1566, when the name was assigned to the palatinates of Vilnius and Trakai. The name was used in...