the Teutonic Knights in Klaipėda, Lithuania, near the Baltic Sea. The Teutons called the castle Memelburg or Memel, and Klaipėda was generally known as...
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The number of inhabitants of Klaipėda city shrank from 202,929 in 1989 to 162,360 in 2011, but the urban zone of Klaipėda expanded well into the suburbs...
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The Klaipėda Castle Jazz Festival (Lithuanian: Klaipėdos pilies džiazo festivalis) has been held annually during June or July in Klaipėda, Lithuania since...
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Memel, East Prussia, Germany, now Klaipėda, Lithuania Memelburg, (Klaipėda Castle), the Ordensburg in Memel, a castle built in 1252 by Teutonic Knights...
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Klaipėda Klaipėda Airfield Klaipėda Castle Klaipėda LNG terminal, a liquefied natural gas terminal in Lithuania Klaipėda Revolt, a 1923 push for unification...
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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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Castle in Biržai Klaipėda Castle in Klaipėda Trakai Island Castle in Trakai Castle and Fortress in Kaunas Lithuanian Sea Museum in Klaipėda Fort Cornwallis...
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onwards. List of castles in Belarus List of castles in Poland List of castles in Ukraine List of castles in Latvia List of castles in Estonia List of...
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Coat of arms of Klaipėda is the coat of arms of the city of Klaipėda, Lithuania. It is used as coat of arms of Klaipėda city municipality. The modern...
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tourist in Klaipėda, inflicting her with 14 stab wounds from a knife. The girl was with a group brought to an archaeological site in Klaipėda Castle. While...
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excavations Tautavičius researched the Vilnius Castle Complex, Klaipėda Castle, and Trakai Peninsula Castle sites. Tautavičius wrote more than 600 academic...
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first in Eastern Europe. Klaipėda Castle: Archeological site and museum housed in a castle built by the Teutonic Knights in Klaipėda, Lithuania, near the...
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Castle 12 June 1998 Liškiava Monastery and Church of the Holy Trinity 12 June 1998 Klaipėda Klaipėda Castle 12 June 1998 Medininkai Medininkai Castle...
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territories in modern-day Lithuania: the Klaipėda district municipality, the Šilutė district municipality, Klaipėda city, Pagėgiai municipality, and Neringa...
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institutions operated until 1940. In 1923, the Klaipėda Revolt was organized which unified the Klaipėda Region with Lithuania. The 1926 Lithuanian coup...
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Vilnius Jazz Festival Vilnius Mama Jazz Birštonas Jazz Kaunas Jazz Klaipėda Castle Jazz Festival Nida Jazz Jazz bands and performers: Petras Vyšniauskas...
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Varniai). The Teutonic army, which consisted of 40 knights, crew of the Klaipėda Castle, and Sambians, was commanded by Marshal Heinrich von Plötzke. When...
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Trakai Island Castle (Lithuanian: Trakų salos pilis) is an island castle located in Trakai, Lithuania, on an island in Lake Galvė. The construction of...
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Christmemel (category Castles of the Teutonic Knights)
Christmemel was abandoned and the garrison was transferred to the Klaipėda Castle. Peter von Dusburg claimed that the fortress was damaged by "shaking...
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Burgstall (redirect from Castle site)
Weidenberg, Bavaria Uhlenburg, Essel, Lower Saxony Klaipėda Castle, Klaipėda Bredevoort Castle, Bredevoort, Guelders There are numerous villages in...
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Samogitian lands. In 1252 he approved the Order's construction of Klaipeda Castle. Their governance, however, was seen as oppressive. Local merchants...
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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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Tauragė Castle (Lithuanian: Tauragės pilis) is a 19th-century masonry building in Tauragė, near the Baltic Coast. It was originally built between 1844...
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Curonian Lagoon (category Tourist attractions in Klaipėda County)
the Klaipėda Strait connects the lagoon to the Baltic Sea, and the place was chosen by the Teutonic Knights in 1252 to found Memelburg Castle and the...
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port city of Klaipėda on the Lithuanian mainland. The northern 52 km (32 mi) long stretch of the Curonian Spit peninsula lies in Klaipėda County, Lithuania...
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Kaunas Castle (Lithuanian: Kauno pilis) is a medieval castle in Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania. Archeological evidence suggests that it...
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Oblast 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...
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The Vilnius Castle Complex (Lithuanian: Vilniaus pilių kompleksas or Vilniaus pilys) is a group of cultural, and historic structures on the left bank of...
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League of Nations mandate of Memel/Klaipėda. In 1923 the restored Lithuania annexed the Memelland after the Klaipėda Revolt and Übermemel was given the...
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Medininkai Castle (Lithuanian: Medininkų pilis), a medieval castle in Vilnius district, eastern Lithuania. Castle was built in the first half of the 14th...
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