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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events are held annually in Klaipėda Region since 2023. The Klaipėda city municipality council is the governing body of the Klaipėda city municipality. It is...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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dialect once existed in the Klaipėda region, but it became extinct after World War II after its inhabitants fled the region as a result of being expelled...
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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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Sandora Society (category Klaipėda Region)
(mainly the Klaipėda Region) from 1904 to 1940. Its long-term chairman and leader was Lutheran priest Vilius Gaigalaitis. Based in Klaipėda (Memel), it...
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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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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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[1]. The Klaipėda Region was annexed from Germany in 1923, but was not included in the 1923 census. A separate census in the Klaipėda region was held...
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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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historic region of Lithuania Minor, on the steep southern bank of the Neman River, where it forms the Russian border with the Klaipėda Region in Lithuania...
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Šilutė (category Cities in Klaipėda County)
Heydekrug) is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County in western Lithuania. The city was part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor. Šilutė...
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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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