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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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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Kingdom of Prussia (redirect from Prussian kingdom)
(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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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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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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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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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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Prussia (region) (redirect from Prussian lands)
Prussia (Polish: Prusy [ˈprusɨ] ; Lithuanian: Prūsija; Russian: Пруссия [ˈprusʲ(ː)ɪjə] ; Prussian: Prūsa; German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ; Latin:...
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Klaipėda (redirect from Klaipeda, Lithuania)
the Prussian branch in 1328. Threats and attacks by Lithuanians greatly slowed down the town's development; the castle was sacked by Lithuanian tribes...
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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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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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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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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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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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Magyla - Prussian Lithuanian Gabjauja (Gabvartas) Polish-Lithuanian historian Theodor Narbutt wrote the ten-volume work History of the Lithuanian Nation...
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PRUSSIAN WRITTEN MONUMENTS. Facsimile, Transliteration, Reconstruction, Comments. / Bibliotheca Klossiana II, Universitas Vytauti Magni / Lithuanians'...
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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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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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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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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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Perkūnas (category Prussian gods)
Perkūnas (Lithuanian: Perkūnas, Latvian: Pērkons, Old Prussian: Perkūns, Perkunos, Yotvingian: Parkuns, Latgalian: Pārkiuņs) was the common Baltic god...
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the ethnic Lithuanians has shrunk over centuries; once Lithuanians made up a majority of the population not only in what is now Lithuania, but also 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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Albrecht von Preußen“ (Litthauisches) Nr. 1) was a Prussian Lithuanian dragoon regiment of the Royal Prussian Army. The regiment was formed in 1717 and disbanded...
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