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    Lithuanian National Cemetery (Lithuanian: Lietuvių tautinės kapinės) is a non-profit cemetery in Justice, Illinois, that mainly serves the Lithuanian...
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    Rasos Cemetery (Lithuanian: Rasų kapinės, Polish: cmentarz Na Rossie, Belarusian: Могілкі Росы) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in the city of Vilnius...
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    possesses the largest Lithuanian community outside Lithuania, who have dubbed the city as Little Lithuania, and many Lithuanian Americans refer to it...
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    National Cemetery (RNC) is a cemetery located in Riverside, California, dedicated to the interment of United States military personnel. The cemetery covers...
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  • com Graceland Cemetery and Arboretum Jewish Graceland – graveyards.com Lithuanian National Cemetery – graveyards.com Montrose Cemetery – graveyards.com...
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  • Karl Pojello (category American people of Lithuanian descent)
    where he died on the same day. They are buried together at the Lithuanian National Cemetery. Pojello's friend and promoter Tamašiūnas built them a gravestone...
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  • expressions of ethnic identity, Lithuanian national costumes were often featured on postal stamps and elsewhere. Lithuania was occupied by Soviet Union in...
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    journalist Tadas Sedekerskis (born 1998), Lithuanian basketball player Justė Zinkevičiūtė (born 1989), Lithuanian actor, writer, lifestyle teacher Curonian...
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  • Thumbnail for Petrašiūnai Cemetery
    Cemetery (Lithuanian: Petrašiūnų kapinės) is Lithuania's premiere last resting place formally designated for graves of people influential in national...
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    Litvaks (redirect from Lithuanian Jew)
    "Lithuanian": the noun for a Lithuanian Jew is Litvak. The term Litvak itself originates from Litwak, a Polish term denoting "a man from Lithuania",...
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    Tatars (Lipka – refers to Lithuania, also known as Lipkas, Lithuanian Tatars; later also – Polish Tatars, Polish–Lithuanian Tatars, Belarusian Tatars...
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    what Lithuania's coat of arms was initially called. The origins of the Lithuanian proper noun Vytis are also unclear. At the dawn of the Lithuanian National...
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    Curonian Spit National Park (Lithuanian: Kuršių nerijos nacionalinis parkas) is one of the five national parks in Lithuania. It was established in 1991...
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    Frank Lubin (category Burials at Riverside National Cemetery)
    Frank John Lubin (Lithuanian: Pranas Jonas Lubinas; January 7, 1910 – July 8, 1999) was a Lithuanian-American basketball player. He played college basketball...
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  • Thumbnail for Jewish cemeteries of Vilnius
    Jewish cemeteries of Vinius are the three Jewish cemeteries of the Lithuanian Jews living in what is today Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, which was...
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    The January Events (Lithuanian: Sausio įvykiai) were a series of violent confrontations between the civilian population of Lithuania, supporting independence...
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    The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai), are Lithuanians, originally Lithuanian language speakers,...
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    Culture of Lithuania combines an indigenous heritage, represented by the unique Lithuanian language, with Nordic cultural aspects and Catholic traditions...
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  • Thumbnail for Powązki Cemetery
    Powązki Cemetery (Polish pronunciation: [pɔˈvɔ̃skʲi]; Polish: Cmentarz Powązkowski), also known as Stare Powązki (English: Old Powązki), is a historic...
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    Mykolas Kalmantas (category Lithuanian Army officers)
    provided with the help of Lithuanian doctors. Kalmantas died on 28 November 1976. He was buried in the Lithuanian National Cemetery in Chicago. Kalmantas...
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    Pet cemetery in Vienna, Austria Pet cemetery in Helsinki, Finland Pet cemetery in Berlin, Germany Pet cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania Pet cemetery in Lisbon...
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  • Thumbnail for Lithuanian National Catholic Church
    Catholic Lithuanian Americans mainly in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Massachusetts. It was also known as the independent (neprigulminga) Lithuanian church...
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  • Thumbnail for Cypress Hills Cemetery
    Cypress Hills Cemetery is a non-sectarian/non-denominational cemetery corporation organized in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, the...
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    important part of Lithuanian culture. Lithuanian traditional crosses are part of the people's Roman Catholic religion. Approximately since Lithuania became a part...
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    Vilnius (redirect from Vilna, Lithuania)
    (/ˈvɪlniəs/ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ), previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous...
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    Kaunas (redirect from Kaunas, Lithuania)
    (/ˈkaʊnəs/; Lithuanian: [ˈkɐʊˑnɐs] ; previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius...
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    Jonas Budrys (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
    counterintelligence officer and later a Lithuanian diplomat. He is best known as the commander of Lithuanian forces during the Klaipėda Revolt in January...
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    Bernardas Kodatis (category Articles containing Lithuanian-language text)
    Lithuania, Kodatis made sure that the document would be delivered to pro-Lithuanian Reichstag deputies in Berlin. Towards 1918, when the Lithuanian Army...
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    extensive Lithuanian Jewish diaspora in Israel, the United States, South Africa, and other countries. The origin of the Jews of Lithuania has been a...
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  • Thumbnail for The Holocaust in Lithuania
    The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total eradication of Lithuanian (Litvaks) and Polish Jews[a] in Generalbezirk Litauen of the Reichskommissariat...
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