accept a Soviet garrison, President Antanas Smetona fled the country leaving Merkys as acting president. Merkys ostensibly cooperated with the Soviets...

Antanas Smetona (Lithuanian: [ɐnˈtǎːnɐs sʲmʲɛtoːˈnɐ] ; 10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and politician who served...

1930s. After President Antanas Smetona fled to the US when the Soviet Union occupied the country, Prime Minister Antanas Merkys became acting president...

Soviet Union entered Lithuania, prompting President Antanas Smetona to flee the country. Antanas Merkys, who assumed the position of acting president in...

theologian, and poet Antanas Mackevičius (1828–1863), Lithuanian priest and an initiator and leader of the 1863 January Uprising Antanas Merkys (1887–1955), Lithuanian...

Aleksandras Stulginskis, Acting President (1926) Antanas Smetona, President (1926–1940) Antanas Merkys, de facto acting president (1940) Justas Paleckis...

of President was established on 4 April 1919. Chairman of the Presidium Antanas Smetona was elected as First President of the State of Lithuania by the...

Estonia and Latvia. 16 June 1940, Prime minister of Lithuania Antanas Merkys removes Antanas Smetona from the post of president and, contrary to Lithuanian...

democratically elected government was replaced with the authoritarian rule of Antanas Smetona. The Third Seimas was dissolved on March 12, 1927 and new elections...

Seimas, but served for only six months, as he was deposed in a coup led by Antanas Smetona on the pretext of an imminent communist plot to take over Lithuania...

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Antanas Tumėnas Vytautas Petrulis Leonas Bistras Mykolas Sleževičius Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys...

Antanas Tumėnas Vytautas Petrulis Leonas Bistras Mykolas Sleževičius Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys...

a commissioner of the Lithuanian government. The first of these was Antanas Merkys, who spoke Polish well and made some conciliatory decisions toward Poles...

1 August 1926) Karolis Žalkauskas (1 August 1926 – 1 November 1927) Antanas Merkys (1 November 1927 – 19 May 1932) Vytautas Jonas Gylys (19 May 1932 –...

Minister Antanas Merkys as per the constitution. The next day, Merkys declared himself president in his own right. The cabinet confirmed Merkys in office...

government in exile (1987–1991) Visvaldas Mažonas (1941–), politician Antanas Merkys (1888–1955) – last Prime Minister of interwar Lithuania Mindaugas (1200–1263)...

incorporation into the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian SSR, Prime Minister Antanas Merkys served as acting president until Justas Paleckis was installed by the...

Antanas Tumėnas Vytautas Petrulis Leonas Bistras Mykolas Sleževičius Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys...

politicians such as Aleksandras Stulginskis, Juozas Urbšys, Leonas Bistras, Antanas Merkys, Pranas Dovydaitis, Petras Klimas, government officials, military officers...

Antanas Tumėnas Vytautas Petrulis Leonas Bistras Mykolas Sleževičius Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys...

government of President Kazys Grinius, Voldemaras and fellow nationalist Antanas Smetona supported the military coup d'état in December 1926 and he was...

then-President Antanas Smetona but was arrested at the border several days later by the then acting Lithuanian President Antanas Merkys and handed over...

Georgia (2004–2008 and 2008–2013) and Rose Revolution leader  Lithuania Antanas Merkys Last Prime Minister of independent Lithuania (1939-1940)  Israel Yitzhak...

Antanas Tumėnas Vytautas Petrulis Leonas Bistras Mykolas Sleževičius Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys...

Vincas Vitkauskas, Divisional General Stasys Raštikis, Kazys Bizauskas, Antanas Merkys and most of the Lithuanian government members decided that it would...

President Antanas Smetona left for the West, expecting to return when the geopolitical situation changed, leaving Prime Minister Antanas Merkys in Lithuania...

and served in the Romanian Front where he became close friends with Antanas Merkys. This relationship proved crucial in Vitkauskas' career. He returned...

of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878) 1955 – Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania...

various German financial institutions. According to Klaipėda Governor Antanas Merkys (1927–1932), the deteriorating situation of the region was dangerous...