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History of Lithuania
History of Lithuania
LITHUANIA
CONTENT:
1. Prehistory;
2. Entering into a period;
3. Establishment of the state;
4. Grand Duchy of Lithuania;
5. Lithuania’s alliance with Poland;
6. Tsarist Russian empire;
7. During the interwar Republic (1918-1940);
8. Soviet Lithuania;
9. Second Republic of Lithuania(1990-2013).
FIRST PEOPLE IN LITHUANIA
(before 11 thousand years).
THE BEGINNING OF THE BALTS’
HISTORY
History started 4-3 thousand
before BC.
In the sixth century tribes of the
Balts split into separate tribes
(lowlanders, Prussians,
Lithuanians, Latgale, Selonians,
Curonians, Semigallians,
Yotvingians, skalvians).
Formed the eastern and western
Balts.
The Balts engaged in agriculture
and animal husbandry
The Balts were pagans.
THE LANDS OF THE BALTS IN XI-XII c.
CONFEDERATION OF LITHUANIAN
LANDS IN XII-XIII c.
XII – XIII a.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF
LITHUANIA
Lithuania's name was first mentioned in 1009 in annals of
Quedlinburg (Chronicle)
THE UNIFIER OF LANDS OF LITHUANIA IS
MINDAUGAS
In 1251 Mindaugas was
baptized;
Gediminas dynasty -
ruled the longest Grand
Dukes of Lithuania
Dynasty (1316 - 1372).
Dynasty pioneer – the
Duke Gediminas.
Gediminas considered to
be the founder of Vilnius.
VYTAUTAS THE GREAT (1392 – 1430)
Newspapers were
published in Tilsit (now
Sovetsk) and Ragainė
(now Nieman).
KAISER OCCUPATION OF LITHUANIA
(1915– 1918)