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    The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai), are Lithuanians, originally Lithuanian language speakers...
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    Prussia, where Prussian Lithuanians (or Lietuvininkai) lived, now located in Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. Lithuania Minor encompassed...
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    (including Kashubs in West Prussia and Mazurs in East Prussia), Prussian Lithuanians (in East Prussia), Sorbs (in Lusatia), Czechs and Moravians (in Silesia)...
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    Klaipėda Region (category Historical regions in Lithuania)
    Minor to unite with Lithuania, but the majority of Prussian Lithuanians did not want to join with Lithuania, and the Prussian Lithuanians, at 26.6% of the...
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    Eurobarometer, 29% of Lithuanians said that corruption affects their daily lives (EU average 26%). Moreover, 95% of Lithuanians regarded corruption as...
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    campaigning against the Prussians, Lithuanians and Samogitians in 1230. By the end of the century, having quelled several Prussian uprisings, the Knights...
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    north, and the Lithuanians to the northeast. The smallest social unit in Baltic lands was the laūks, a word attested in Old Prussian as "field", which...
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    however, for the Prussian Lithuanians in Lithuania Minor, a part of the Soviet share of the former East Prussia. The government of the Lithuanian SSR followed...
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    Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European...
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  • 1871, the population of Prussian Lithuanians in East Prussia started to decline even further due to Germanisation. Many Lithuanians who wanted a better life...
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    With the emigration of many Lithuanians to overseas or the assimilation of the remaining Lithuanians and Prussian Lithuanians, who hold German citizenship...
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  • Lithuanian mythology (Lithuanian: Lietuvių mitologija) is the mythology of Lithuanian polytheism, the religion of pre-Christian Lithuanians. Like other...
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    000 (53%) of residents in Lithuania Minor (more than 90% of the deceased were Prussian Lithuanians). Following it, the Prussian authorities organized a...
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    Prussia (redirect from Prussian)
    (including Kashubs in West Prussia and Mazurs in East Prussia), Prussian Lithuanians (in East Prussia), Sorbs (in Lusatia), Czechs and Moravians (in Silesia)...
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  • Prussia became a secular Protestant state. So Prussian Lithuanians became Protestants (Lutherans), while Lithuanians in G.D.L. stayed Catholics. The next point...
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    Lithuanians belonged to the Catholic Church, which has claimed the adherence of the majority of Lithuanians since the Christianization of Lithuania in...
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  • Samogitians ("Lowlanders") (Žemaitē) Prussian Lithuanians or Small Lithuanians - Lietuvininkai (they lived in Lithuania Minor, northeastern Prussia) Western...
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    East Prussia (redirect from East Prussian)
    November 1949 (1,401 persons) and January 1950 (7 persons). The Prussian Lithuanians also experienced the same fate. A similar fate befell the Curonians...
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    Klaipėda Revolt (category 1923 in Lithuania)
    out. Lithuania wanted to unite with the region (part of Lithuania Minor) due to its large Lithuanian-speaking population of Prussian Lithuanians and major...
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    related to other Baltic faiths, the Lithuanian and Latvian mythologies. Its myths and legends did not survive as Prussians became Germanized and their culture...
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  • loans [lt; lv] was Lithuanian. After the migration of Lithuanians in the 15th century, many Lithuanian loanwords appeared in the Low Prussian dialect. The writer...
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    PRUSSIAN WRITTEN MONUMENTS. Facsimile, Transliteration, Reconstruction, Comments. / Bibliotheca Klossiana II, Universitas Vytauti Magni / Lithuanians'...
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  • there were Slavic (Polish, Sorbian, and Kashubian) and Baltic (Prussian Lithuanians and Curonians) minorities, and a significant minority of the population...
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    Dovas Zaunius (senior) (category Lithuania Minor)
    first of the Lithuanian Conservative Election Societies that sought to elect Prussian Lithuanians to the German Reichstag and Prussian Landtag. Zaunius...
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    Löbau that ensued, Prussians killed 40 knights, including the Master and the Marshal. The Prussians also received help from Lithuanians and Sudovians. In...
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    Königsberg (category Articles containing Lithuanian-language text)
    Królewiec, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius, Baltic Prussian: Kunnegsgarbs, Russian: Кёнигсберг, romanized: Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of...
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    Kaliningrad Oblast (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
    In 1577, the Duke of Prussia forbade serfs—who were mostly Old Prussians, Lithuanians, and Masurians—to leave the land that was the property of the German...
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  • the aftermath of his victory at Friedland Act of Tilsit, an act by Prussian Lithuanians signed in 1918 Tilsit, Missouri, a community in the United States...
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  • subdialect were Prussian Lithuanians. Eastern Low Prussian had borders with Ostsamländisch, Natangian, and Standard German. Lithuanian language was spoken...
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    Christian missionaries with the Lithuanians occurred in 1185, when Saint Meinhard was attacked by the Lithuanians. Lithuanian troops were also supporting...
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