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    Veliuona (Samogitian: Veliouna, Polish: Wielona, German: Wehlonen) is a small town on the Nemunas River in the Jurbarkas district municipality in Lithuania...
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    Skaudvilė Smalininkai Panemunė St. Francis church in Šilalė Raudonė Castle Veliuona Manor Holy Trinity church in Jurbarkas Panemunė Castle "BENDRASIS VIDAUS...
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    chronicles, who wrote that during the battle at Bayernburg Castle (near Veliuona, Lithuania) Tilman Zumpach, head of the Teutonic riflemen, burned the Lithuanian...
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  • often presented as wife of Bubilas Deuoitis Vetustis Guboi and Tvverticos Veliuona (Vielona) – goddess of death Warpulis Salaus – no function recorded by...
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  • time Kruonis, Lithuanian goddess of time Laima, Latvian goddess of fate Veliuona, Lithuanian goddess of death, the afterlife, and eternity Verpėja, Lithuanian...
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    Gdańsk - 2 February 1781, Chernobyl) was the Starost of Samogitia and Veliuona; Count of Shklow and Nowa Mysz [pl]. His father, Adam Tadeusz Chodkiewicz [pl]...
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    children) 4 September, Seredžius massacre (126 children) 4 September, Veliuona massacre (86 children) 4 September, Zapyškis massacre (13 children) 6 September...
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    others were taken captive. The defeat, followed by the destruction of Veliuona and Pieštvė the following year, severely weakened Lithuanian defenses along...
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    to the East Indies and Latin Patriarch of Antioch. Zaleski was born in Veliuona (Lithuania then under Russian rule). He was the son of Leon and Gabriela...
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  • western Aukštaitians (Marijampolė, Vilkaviškis, Kazlų Rūda, Garliava), Veliuona, and Dzūkian. In this region, the acute accent is more intense and has...
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  • Sėlija Sergėtoja Upinė Užsparinė Vaivora Vakarinė (Brėkšta, Vakarė) Valginė Veliuona Verpiančioji (Verpėja) Žemės Motina Žemyna Žiezdrė Old Prussian Laima Saule...
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    in Kazan; their remains were exhumed and reburied in the churchyard in Veliuona in November 1990. The same year, museum of Lithuanian ethnic culture named...
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    Nemunaitis, Birštonas, Žiežmariai, Stakliškės, Karmėlava, Vilkija, Skirsnemunė, Veliuona, Darsūniškis. While she had immense influence on Sigismund Augustus, she...
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    wanted the border to be the Neman River, while the Order wanted to have Veliuona and Klaipėda in the right side of the river. Both sides agreed to accept...
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    border to be the Neman River, while the Teutonic Order wanted to have Veliuona and Klaipėda in the right side of the river. Both sides agreed to accept...
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  • Žičkienė, Aušra. "Veliuonos raudos XIX ir XX amžiuje" [Lamentations from Veliuona district recorded in the 19th and 20th centuries]. In: Tautosakos darbai...
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  • 3 mi) below Kaunas. This New Kaunas was destroyed in April 1363 along with Veliuona and Pieštvė. This severely weakened Lithuanian defenses along the Neman...
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    was a triangle between Viešvilė, Ančia River (tributary of Šešuvis), and Veliuona. Further, he paid particular attention to Ycoine mentioned by Jean d'Outremeuse...
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    and in 2005 – the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts and the Veliuona novella prize (previously the Petras Cvirka prize). Žydi bičių duona. Vilnius:...
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  • ordained as a priest in 1803 and worked as a parish priest in Varniai and Veliuona. After the Uprising of 1831, he fled Tsarist persecutions first to East...
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    kalnas, Ramybės kalnas Veliuona Veliuonos piliakalnis Gedimino kapas, Gedimino kalnas Veliuona Veliuonos II piliakalnis Pilaitės, Bajerburgas Veliuona...
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  • The Teutonic force sailed upstream the Neman River to an island near Veliuona. There they built two wards (identified as present-day Pilaitės) and another...
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    attacked numerous times by the Order. Because it stood near Junigeda (Veliuona), both fortresses were often attacked together. It was burned down in 1363...
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    pillaged Šiauliai area without much of opposition and destroyed a castle in Veliuona. In the east, Lithuania lost influence in Pskov and Novgorod in 1348 and...
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    burning of Kolainiai in 1291 and Bisenė in 1316, Junigeda (now called Veliuona) became the westernmost Lithuanian fortress along the river. In 1298, Lithuanian...
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    March 1423. The Treaty of Melno was subsequently ratified on 9–18 May in Veliuona and approved by Pope Martin V on 10 July 1423. Poland–Lithuania affixed...
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  • Neringa Valkininkai Krakės Barstyčiai Klausučiai Tiltagaliai Juodeikiai Veliuona Nevarėnai Vyžuonos Deltuva 2022 Alytus Leipalingis Nemakščiai Sangrūda...
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    subregion, sometimes called Zanavykija. Another important center is in Veliuona. The name Zanavykai is derived from the Nova River, a tributary of the...
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  • in 1960s and 1980s. Funeral laments survived in the areas of Suvalkija, Veliuona, Seredžius and in Lithuanian villages in Belarus in the areas of Voranava...
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  • gymnasium Jurbarkas Antanas Giedraitis-Giedrys gymnasium Eržvilkas gymnasium Veliuona Antanas and Jonas Juška gymnasium Pagėgiai Algimantas Mackus gymnasium...
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