The Lithuanian Hall lang lt Lietuvi Namai , also known as Lith Hall , is the home of the Lithuanian Hall Association. It is a private club located in Union Square, Baltimore and serves as a recreation center and meeting house for social events, including dance nights, musical events, community suppers and cultural events. The hall was founded to serve the needs of the Lithuanian American Lithuanian community in Baltimore , Maryland . The hall is popular with artists and Hipster contemporary subculture hipsters . ref cite web url http weblogs.baltimoresun.com entertainment midnight sun blog 2010 04 john waters 50s jams and cutti.html title John Waters, 50s jams and cutting a rug at Lithuanian Hall publisher The Baltimore Sun accessdate 11 28 2011 ref History The hall was established in 1917, and was only referred to by the Lithuanian name Lietuvi Namai until 1968. ref cite web url http www.baltimorelac.org history of establishment ?lang en title History of Lithuanian Hall publisher Baltimore Lithuanian American Community accessdate 11 28 2011 ref During the 1920s the hall was provided as a venue for speeches by prominent members of the Communist Party USA , such as William Z. Foster and Juliet Stuart Poyntz . On October 13th, 1929, a Jewish branch of the CPUSA hosted a speech by Sol Hurwitz, the editor of the The Forward Jewish Daily Forward , and the speech was interrupted by a mob of Anti communism anti Communists until the police arrived to disperse them. ref Vernon L. Pedersen The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919 1957 2001 p 45 ref References Reflist External links http lietuvis.net Lietuvis lha lha.html Official webpage http www.baltimorelac.org ?lang en Baltimore Lithuanian American Community website http www.malunas.com Website for Lithuanian folk dancing group ... The Baltimore Sun http 1.bp.blogspot.com 340TbiQqpAc SyYJW6NxIEI AAAAAAAAABQ M 6PDDGvsCo s320 lithuanian ... Lithuanian American history Category Lithuanians in Baltimore, Maryland Category Music venues in Maryland ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Lithuanian American image File George Romero, 66 me Festival de Venise Mostra ... small Notable Lithuanian Americans br George A. Romero Brandon Flowers Anthony Kiedis br Charles Bronson ... United States Northeast , Midwest langs American English , Lithuanian language Lithuanian ... American File Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus and Vice President Dick Cheney in Vilnius, Lithuania.jpg thumb 200px Valdas Adamkus was a Lithuanian American working in the United States Environmental ... . Lithuanian Americans are citizen s of the United States who are of Lithuanians Lithuanian ancestry. According to the United States Census , there are 712,165 Americans of full or partial Lithuanian ... of Lithuanian Americans 20.8 in the United States . History Large numbers of Lithuanians first came ... formed part of the Russian Empire Saint Petersburg had annexed the Lithuanian lands piece by piece between 1772 and 1795 in the partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth between Prussian Kingdom ... Empire as well as a population boom that exhausted available land transformed Lithuanian peasant .... The pressures of industrialization drove numerous Lithuanian peasants to emigrate to the United States continuing until the outbreak of the First World War . This first wave of Lithuanian immigrants ... Kingdom a more attractive option for potential Lithuanian emigrants. Occupations Lithuanians ... estimates were that 30 of the emigrants from the Russian provinces of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth ... to 50 60 . Lithuanian immigrants who mostly came to the United States from Imperial Russia lived in a social ... middle roles of artisans, merchants and moneylenders. American employers considered Lithuanian ..., and steel mills, particularly in the primary stages of steel manufacture. Consequently, Lithuanian ... cover.jpg 120px thumb left The Jungle is the most well known depiction of Lithuanian American life ... States are or have been aware of their Lithuanian ancestry, including famous anarchist Emma ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Lithuanian Canadian image File KevinBieksa2009a.jpg x138px File RutaLeeDec09.jpg ... x138px caption small Notable Lithuanian Canadians br Kevin Bieksa Ruta Lee br George A. Romero ... people lithuanian.html title Lithuanian Heritage Community Foundation publisher Abheritage.ca ... Yukon Yukon pop11 10 2006 ref name statcan2006 langs Canadian English , Lithuanian language Lithuanian ... Lutheranism related Lithuanian people Lithuanians , Prussian Lithuanians smallsup 1 small 11,425 solely of Lithuanian origin, 35,260 of mixed origin. small Lithuanian Canadians are citizen s of Canada who are of full or partial Lithuanians Lithuanian ancestry. Over two thirds of Lithuanian Canadians reside in Toronto , ref cite web last Tokarev first Sergey url http immigration online.org 184 lithuanian immigration.html title Lithuanian immigration publisher Immigration online.org date 2011 02 ... in Canada were Lithuanians who fought in the British Army in Canada 1813 1815 . Lithuanian ... the unilateral Soviet Union Soviet Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic incorporation of Lithuanian ... 1990 , and have continued to arrive. ref Ibid. 2 ref Concentration The majority of Lithuanian ... , Alberta , Manitoba , ref Ibid. 2 ref and Nova Scotia . Lithuanian Canadians are present in 37 Canadian ... , Saskatchewan , the Northwest Territories , and Yukon . Organization The Lithuanian Canadian Community Lithuanian language Lithuanian Kanados Lietuvi Bendruomen , the largest Lithuanian Canadian association ... Evangelical Lutheran . A considerable percentage of Lithuanian Canadians have reverted to the indigenous Lithuanian religion which has been revived as Romuva religion Romuva , particularly third ... Strmiska, pg. 278 279 ref There are two Roman Catholic parishes for Lithuanian Canadians, ref ... Ibid. 2 ref References reflist 30em People of Canada Category Ethnic groups in Canada Category Lithuanian diaspora Category Lithuanian emigration Category Canadian people of Lithuanian descent ... more details
200px Coat of arms with crossed arrows come from ancient times, like Ko ciesza coat of arms The Lithuanian ... the Union of Lublin in 1569, Lithuanian nobility became less distinguishable from Polish szlachta , although it preserved Lithuania n national awareness. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth had one ... of Lithuania Lithuanian state by Mindaugas , lesser members of the nobility were called bajorai singular ... . Ethnic Lithuanian nobility had different names than common people, as their names were made of two Word stem s. Greater noble families generally used the Lithuanian language Lithuanian pagan given Lithuanian name names of their precursors as their family name s this was the case with Go tautai .... While at the beginning the nobility was almost all Lithuanian, with territorial expansion more Ruthenian families joined Lithuanian nobility. Already in the 16th century several Ruthenian noble families began to call themselves gente Ruthenus, natione Lithuanus . ref cite journal title About the Lithuanian ... its ancestry from the House of Gediminas . According to a military census in 1528, ethnic Lithuanian ... year 2000 publisher Lithuanian Institute of History location Vilnius isbn 9986 810 13 2 pages ... during the interregnum Lithuanian Civil War 1431 1435 fights following Vytautas death. Wealthier ... Lithuanian, Ruthenian and even Polish. In the 15th century, the biggest landowners began to call themselves lords ponai or didikai , and the Lithuanian Council of Lords was established to represent ... century, Lithuanian nobility stopped calling themselves bajorai they adopted Polish term szlachta ... Lietuvos bajoras volume 1 pages 10 13 publisher Danielius issn 1392 1304 language Lithuanian quote ... renewed Polish Lithuanian union and established a common Sejm and guaranteed the right to inherit lands gifted by the Grand Duke. 43 Lithuanian noble families were granted Polish coats of arms ... policy. The Grand Duke became dependent on the Lithuanian Council of Lords . Without the consent of the Council ... more details
in Lithuania, see Misnagdim Lithuanian Jews or Litvaks are Jews with roots in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ... follow a Lithuanian Ashkenazi c and non Hasidic style of life and learning, whatever their ethnic ... Default.htm Vilnius, Jerusalem of Lithuania ref Before World War II, the Lithuanian Jewish population ... Lithuanian population by ethnicity ref There are still strong communities of Jews of Lithuanian descent around the world, especially in Israel , the United States , South Africa , Zimbabwe ... prior to the German invasion who identified themselves as Lithuanian Jews . Using different sources ... army that identified themselves as Lithuanian Jews. ref http www.holocaustsurvivors.org data.show.php?di record&da encyclopedia&ke 27 ref File Lithuanian state in 13 15th centuries.png thumb right The Grand Duchy of Lithuania Etymology The adjective Litvish means Lithuanian History of the Jews in Latvia Latvian Jews were known as Lettish the noun for a Lithuanian Jew is Litvak . The term Litvak ... of a Lithuanian Jew . Of the main Yiddish dialects in Europe, the Litvisher Yiddish Litvishe Yiddish Lithuanian Yiddish dialect was spoken by Jews in Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia and in the Suwa ki ... , in which the Lithuanian academies were the heartland of opposition to Hasidism, Lithuanian ... Jews who follow the traditions of the great Lithuanian yeshivot whether or not their ancestors ... are somewhat misleading, because there are also Hasidic Jews from greater Lithuania and lots of Lithuanian ..., religious customs and heritage The characteristically Lithuanian approach to Judaism was marked by a concentration ... between the groups grew to the extent that in popular perception Lithuanian and Misnagdim misnagged became virtually interchangeable terms. However, a sizable minority of Lithuanian Jews belong ... . With the spread of the Age of Enlightenment Enlightenment , many Lithuanian Jews became devotees ... society, and today many leading academics, scientists and philosophers are of Lithuanian Jewish ... more details
Use dmy dates date October 2011 Lithuanian mythology is an example of Baltic peoples Baltic mythology ... in Lithuania died out much later than in any other European country, actual information on Lithuanian ... and, subsequently, hypotheses and discussions, as to what the pagan Lithuanian religion actually was. Because of this view, many scholars preferred to write their own reconstructions of Lithuanian ... was written by the Polish language Polish speaking Lithuanian historian Theodor Narbutt at the beginning ..., the fact that Lithuanian mythology was not static, but constantly developed, so that it did not remain ... mythology, which in general concepts seems very different from its Lithuanian and Latvia n counterparts ... of Lithuanian mythology offer a far from true description of their subject, being little more than a patchwork of arbitrarily selected details from Lithuanian and Belarus ian mythologies. The account ... Lithuanian and Slavic languages. Lithuanian isn t a Slavic language, but a Baltic one The most modern academics exploring Lithuanian mythology in the second half of the 20th century were Norbertas ... Gimbutas , the initial structure of Lithuanian mythology was based on a matriarchal system of goddess .... Expand section date June 2008 Relations with other mythological systems Lithuanian mythology ... in folklore has themes resembling Lithuanian Perkunas . Sparks fly from the cartwheels and the hooves ... These also closely resemble the Vedic Parjanya . The periods of Lithuanian mythology Pre Christian ... of Lithuanian mythology started in the 15th century, and lasted till approximately the middle of the 17th ... to the pre Christian Lithuanian heritage among common people was abandoned, and attempts were made ... in mythic stories. The last period of Lithuanian mythology began in the 19th century, when the importance ... this period too. Elements of Lithuanian mythology Image Zemaiciu Alka Samogitian Alka .jpg thumb 260 ... date June 2008 Inner heroism Lithuanian myths often reveal the inner heroism of a human being ... more details
The auksinas was the name of two currencies of Lithuania First Auksinas The auksinas was the currency of Lithuania in the 17th century. It was a silver coin, sub divided into 30 gra is, with 3 auksinas 1 taleris. http www.lbank.lt lt leidiniai pinigu studijos1999 2 sajauskas.pdf It was equivalent to the Polish z oty , with the name also meaning gold , and was replaced by the z oty as the currency of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth . Second auksinas The auksinas was the name given to the German ostmark ostmark in 1919, at a time when notes issued by Germany and 1000 ost marki notes issued by the Lietuvos kio Bankas were in circulation. Plans to issue currency denominated in auksinas and skatiku frac 1 100 auksinas did not come to fruition and the Lithuanian litas litas was instead introduced in 1922. Category Modern obsolete currencies Category Currencies of Lithuania Money unit stub Lithuania hist stub lt Auksinas ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Lithuanian Scots br image flagicon Lithuania flagicon Scotland poptime 5,000 to 10,000 at the start of the 20th century believed to be many descendents. http www.rls.org.uk database record.php?usi 000 000 001 404 L , http www.bbc.co.uk legacies immig emig scotland strathclyde popplace Throughout Lanarkshire and Ayrshire specifically Greater Glasgow langs Scots language Scots Scottish English Lithuanian language Lithuanian rels Roman Catholic , Jewish related Scottish people Scots Lithuanian Scots or Scottish Lithuanians are an ethnic minority of Lithuanian people Lithuanians living in Scotland . There were many different reasons why they left their home on the shores of the Baltic some were escaping conscription into the Russian army some were freedom fighters, carrying illegal books in the proscribed Lithuanian language some were Jews fleeing persecution others were simply economic migrants, desperate to escape the crushing poverty at home and prepared to go anywhere in search of a better life. ref http www.bbc.co.uk legacies immig emig scotland strathclyde BBC Legacies ref Many came to Scotland as they could not afford the journey on to America, others were even duped into thinking they had arrived in America, only subsequently to discover they were, in fact, in Scotland. When they arrived in Scotland, mostly at the port of Leith, the Lithuanians split into two groups, the Jewish immigrants settling in the Gorbals and the Catholic Lithuanians heading for the smelting works of North Ayrshire, the mines of West Lothian and, mainly, for the iron works and mines of Lanarkshire, the vast majority settling in the area round Bellshill and Mossend. Of the 7,000 Lithuanians to emigrate to the United Kingdom over half came to work in Scotland , with Glasgow ... People of Lithuanian descent Sir Matt Busby , manager of Manchester United . Billy McNeill , Lisbon ... reflist Category Immigration to Scotland Lithuania Category Scottish people of Lithuanian descent ... more details
Refimprove date January 2009 Lithuanian grammar is the study of rules governing the use of the Lithuanian language . Lithuanian grammar retains many archaic features from Proto Indo European that have ... Verbal interjection Prieveiksmis Adverb Gender Lithuanian declinable words are classified ... t depend on the will of a speaker. Lithuanian grammatical genders are similar to, for instance ... wiki audio Latin to hear, listen small br aud t , aud tae, aud ta Grammatical number The Lithuanian ... words dauginiai od iai in Lithuanian . The singular number indicates that the denoted thing is one ... century, the dual was used more or less sporadically in Lithuanian, sometimes reaching the status of a full ... its own forms in Lithuanian. These words are pronouns kas who? what? , ka kas something, somebody and reflexive ... of declined words main Lithuanian declension Nominative vardininkas Genitive kilmininkas it also ... clear status in the standard Lithuanian Allative obsolete, the singular is reduced to adverbs ... case, extinct in modern standard Lithuanian. The later three locatives are adverb forming cases. Nouns see also Lithuanian declension Lithuanian grammar makes a distinction between Noun Proper nouns ... to use singular nouns in plural form. Noun modification by numeral In Lithuanian, unlike in Romance ... wikitable Number ends with Form Example 1 excluding 11 Singular 31 Lithuanian litas litas 2 9 excluding ... Lithuanian declension Nouns in Lithuanian language have five declension s which are defined by the inflection ..., received by the statistical analysis of the data in the Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian language ... mean Lithuanian accentuation Nouns accentuation types . For the third type the additional information is given in dictionaries. The mark 3 without the letter added, is for words, stressed in the next ... s n s and liet s. The number of words Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian language Dabartin s ... style background F0F2F5 viln s 2 wave kulk n s 1 ankle Adjectives Declension main Lithuanian declension ... more details
The Lithuanian calendar is unusual among Western countries in that neither the names of the months nor the names of the weekdays are derived from Greek mythology Greek or Norse mythology . citation needed date April 2012 They were formalized after Lithuania Act of Independence of Lithuania regained independence in 1918, based on historic names, and celebrate natural phenomena three months are named for birds, two for trees, and the remainder for seasonal activities and features. The days of the week ... calendar.jpg thumb left 200px The Gediminas Sceptre, a medieval Lithuanian calendar Ancient Baltic ... http ausis.gf.vu.lt eka eastr sun7.html Lithuanian archeoastronomy ref and at the Purmaliai mound ... in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the Gregorian calendar was adopted by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth ... . ref http www.manoprograma.com Adelaide 20Tunto 20Handbook Lithuanian 20History.pdf Timeline of Lithuanian ... before their usage became familiar. ref http ausis.gf.vu.lt eka customs calen.html Lithuanian calendar from the 13th to 20th centuries ref Names of the months Image Lithuanian calendars 19th century.jpg thumb left 200 px 19th century Lithuanian calendars the left in Russian language Russian , the right in Polish language Polish Image Lithuanian calendar 1861.jpg left thumb 200 px A Lithuanian ... that publication in the Lithuanian language was illegal from 1864 to 1904 see Lithuanian press ban and some drift in the usages occurred. Month names are not customarily capitalized in the Lithuanian ... is derived from rugiai , rye , and the verb pjauti , to cut. This staple Lithuanian grain is harvested ... educat tradicijos months.html Months in the Lithuanian calendar http culture.polishsite.us ... bendruomene.org educat tradicijos months.html The Lithuanian months http www.muziejai.lt Prienai kalendoriu muziejus.en.htm Calendar exposition at a Lithuanian museum http www.qedata.se bilder gallerier ... lt icon http vydija.puslapiai.lt kalendorius The Lithuanian calendar Calendars Category Lithuanian ... more details
60,000 ref 80 of South Africa s Jewish community of 75,000 are of Lithuanian decent ref region6 CAN ... Religion in Lithuania langs Lithuanian language Lithuanian related Latvians , Prussian Lithuanians , Old ...&IQY &TC &ST ST&rvar0 &rvar1 &rvar2 &rvar3 &rvar4 &rvar5 &r ref Another million or more make up the Lithuanian ... , Russia , United Kingdom and Ireland . Their native language is Lithuanian language Lithuanian ... consolidated into the Lithuanian nation, mainly as a defence against the marauding Teutonic Order ... of the languages of Europe, 2000, pp.304 306 ref However, there is a current argument that the Lithuanian language was considered non prestigious by some elements in Lithuanian society, and a Polonization preference for the Polish language in certain territories of the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth ... Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia caused the number of Lithuanian speakers to decrease. The subsequent ... Poland and Lithuania Russification , which included a Lithuanian press ban ban on public speaking and writing in Lithuanian see, e.g., Knygne iai , the actions against the Catholic Church . It was believed ... within a few generations. At the end of the 19th century a Lithuanian cultural and linguistic revival ... Duchy of Lithuania expressed their affiliation with the modern Lithuanian nation in the early 20th century ... national consolidation. A standard Lithuanian language was approved. However, the eastern parts of Lithuania ... by the Soviet Union , and forced to join it as the Lithuanian SSR . The Germans and their allies attacked ... of Lithuanians in the Kaliningrad Oblast Lithuania Minor were almost destroyed as a result. The Lithuanian ... KULTURA Seminaras etnine kultura.htm work pages accessdate 2008 01 26 language Lithuanian ... the Neolithic period the native inhabitants of the Lithuanian territory have not been replaced by any ... of the Lithuanian human population according to Y chromosome microsatellite markers ref The Lithuanian ... Analysis in the Lithuanian Population ref A 2004 analysis of MtDNA in a Lithuanian population revealed ... more details
Image Metryka litewska.jpg thumb A Lithuanian Metrica of 1511 18, from the chancellery of Lithuanian ... supervision the Lithuanian Metrica was reorganized. The Lithuanian Metrica or the Metrica of the Grand ... of the documents issued by the Grand Duke, Lithuanian Council of Lords , and Seimas of the Grand ... Crown Metrica of Poland . Nowadays, over 600 estimated books of the Lithuanian Metrica still exist ... Lithuanian Metrica had been occasionally used in the local office books by analogy with the Crown ... 20th centuries Russian, Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian historiographies. The name Lithuanian Metrica is till now traditionally used in the Western publications of the Metrica. The name Lithuanian ..., court verdicts etc., determined the evolution of the Lithuanian Metrica. The Lithuanian Metrica ... of Poland , the books which concerned these regions, were removed from the Lithuanian Metrica, and merged ... to an edict issued in 1793, the Lithuanian Metrica was to be transferred from Warsaw to Vilnius again. After the Partitions of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth , the Lithuanian Metrica was transferred to Russia as a war trophy and was kept in St. Petersburg . Russia gave several of the Lithuanian ... in 1807. The remaining Lithuanian Metrica books in St. Petersburg were inventoried and taken to Moscow . The majority of the historical Lithuanian Metrica s books have been kept in Russia, and only a small ... and others. Other notable publications of the period Acts of the Lithuanian Metrica ... of the Lithuanian Russian state c , . 1 .2, ., 1897 1899 . Consists ... of the Metrica materials, this time as an international, Belarusian Lithuanian Polish Russian effort ... reading Zigmantas Kiaupa. The Lithuanian Metrica and the Lithuanian Nobility at the End of the Eighteenth Century, in Lithuanian Historical Studies . Vilnius, 1996. The Lithuanian Institute of History. News of Lithuanian Metrica. Vol. 1 7 .Vilnius, 1996 2003. Vilniaus universitetas. Lietuvos ... more details
, canon law , and tradition. Lithuanian names always follow the rules of the Lithuanian language . Lithuanian ... from a long list of traditional names which may be a Lithuanian language Lithuanian name of pre Christian origin. It is the most ancient layer of Lithuanian personal names a majority of them are dual ... Lithuanian names are constructed from two interconnected Word stem stem s, the combination of which ... Lithuanian rulers, making their names one of the most popular. They include Vytautas , Gediminas ... , i.e., a List of Biblical names Biblical name or a saint s name . The use of Christian names in the Lithuanian ... Vladas St. Ladislaus , Kazimieras Kazys St. Casimir , etc. a Lithuanian language Lithuanian common ... were invented following the rules of the Lithuanian language, therefore it is sometimes difficult ... by Adam Mickiewicz , Daiva by Vyd nas , ar nas by Vincas Kr v and others. names of Lithuanian pagan deities and mythological figures. There are some popular names of gods and goddesses from Lithuanian ... used in today s Lithuania have been in use since the ancient times. Sex differentiation Lithuanian male and female names are different grammatically. Almost all Lithuanian female names end in the vowels ... Lithuanian names always end in . Diminutives Diminutive s are very popular in everyday usage, and are by no means reserved for children. The Lithuanian language allows for a great deal of creativity ... name. Pavard surname Lithuanian surnames, like those in most of Europe, are hereditary and generally ... of 14th century beginning 15th century ref name Schmalstieg cite journal title Lithuanian names journal ... 1982 3 82 3 01.htm accessdate 2007 09 06 ref and were only reserved to the Lithuanian nobility . They usually derived from patronymic s. The most striking peculiarity of the historical Lithuanian heraldic ... Based on origin, several groups of Lithuanian family names may be recognized Cognominal A cognominal ... Minkus from Minkantas Norkus from Norkantas Rimkus from Rimkantas Feminine forms Lithuanian surnames ... more details
TOCright Below is list of Lithuanian language exonym s for places in non Lithuanian speaking areas of Europe Note that this list does not include place names whose only alteration is that the ending as has been appended to the local name e.g. Dublinas for Dublin , or names which have, in accordance with common Lithuanian language practice, been transcribed to fit Lithuanian pronounciaton, e.g. Zalcburgas for Salzburg . Albania Tirana Tiran Tirana Austria Vienna Wien Viena Belarus main Names of Belarusian places in other languages A miany A mena Baranavi y Baranovi iai Bras a Breslauja Hrodna Gardinas Lida Lyda Navahrudak Naugardukas Ol any Al nai Pastavy Pastoviai Smarhon Smurgainys Belgium Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Briuselis Denmark Copenhagen K benhavn Kopenhaga Estonia P rnu Pernu Tallinn Talinas France Nice Nica Paris Pary ius Strasbourg Strasb ras Germany Berlin Berlynas Hungary Budapest Budape tas Italy Ancona Ankona Florence Firenze Florencija Genoa Genova Genuja Mantua Mantova Mantuja Milan o Milanas Naples Napoli Neapolis Padua Padova Paduja Pompei Pomp ja Sardinia Sardegna Sardinija Sicily Sicilia Sicilija Turin Torino Turinas Venice Venezia Venecija Latvia Daugavpils Daugpilis Liep ja Liepoja Riga Ryga Luxembourg Luxembourg city Luxembourg Liuksemburgas Netherlands The Hague Den Haag Haga Moldova Chi in u Ki iniovas Poland August w Augustavas Barczewo Vart nai Barciany ... of traditional Lithuanian place names in Belarus http www.vlkk.lt files atvirkstinis latvijos.pdf List of traditional Lithuanian place names in Latvia http www.vlkk.lt files atvirkstinis karaliauciaus vok liet .pdf List of traditional Lithuanian place names in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia German Lithuanian http www.vlkk.lt files karaliauciaus vietovardziai.pdf List of traditional Lithuanian place names in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia Russian Lithuanian http www.vlkk.lt files atvirkstinis lenkijos.pdf List of traditional Lithuanian place names in Poland Category Lithuanian language Exonyms Category ... more details
Infobox zoo zoo name Lithuanian Zoo logo logo caption image Zoologijos sodas1 2007 07 15.jpg image caption Plan of the zoo location Kaunas , Lithuania date opened July 1, 1938 ref name times date closed coordinates Coord 54 54 05 N 23 57 05 E type landmark display it area Convert 15.9 ha abbr on num species num animals largest tank vol total tank vol annual visitors members exhibits website http www.zoosodas.lt www.zoosodas.lt Lithuanian Zoo previously known as Kaunas Zoo is the only Zoo in Lithuania . ref name times It is located in an uolynas uolynas oak grove park in the south western aliakalnis elderate of Kaunas . ref cite news first last coauthors title Information about zoo date publisher Kaunas Zoo url http www.zoosodas.lt ?tid 1&stid 33&lvl 1&lid 33 1 work pages accessdate 2008 05 18 language Lithuanian ref The territory of the zoo is Convert 15.9 ha . The zoo was initiated in 1935 by Lithuanian zoologist Tadas Ivanauskas and opened on July 1, 1938 with 40 animals. As of 2009, it held over 2,800 insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. It experienced funding difficulties during the 2000s. ref name times cite web title Kaunas a city for zoo lovers url http www.baltictimes.com news articles 22887 publisher Baltic Times accessdate 2009 11 09 ref References Reflist External links Commons category inline Official website http www.zoosodas.lt lt icon Category 1938 establishments in Lithuania Category Zoos in Lithuania Category Buildings and structures in Kaunas Zoo stub Lithuania stub eo Zoo de Ka no hr Zoolo ki vrt u Kaunasu lt Lietuvos zoologijos sodas ja pl Ogr d Zoologiczny w Kownie th ... more details
The Lithuanian Tribunal was the highest appeal court for the Lithuanian nobility nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . It was established by Stefan Batory , Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland , in 1581 as the counterpart to the Crown Tribunal of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom , established in 1578. It ceased to exist after the Third Partition of Poland Third Partition of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. ref name zinkus After the legal reforms of 1563 1564, members of the Lithuanian nobility received the right to appeal to the Grand Duke. ref name andri However, soon Grand Duke s court was severely backlogged and became clear that reforms are needed. The nobles themselves demanded a supreme court . The formalities were finalized on March 1, 1581, but it is unclear when the Tribunal began to operate. ref name andri The unpaid judges were elected for one year term around February 2. ref name andri Each Administrative division of Lithuania voivodeship and powiat provided two people for a total of 42 49 judges. The Tribunal had jurisdiction over the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Duchy of Samogitia , which had a privilege to establish its own tribunal, opted to join the Lithuanian Tribunal in 1588 . ref name andri It could not decide cases involving peasants, city residents, clergy, or Jews. ref name andri The Tribunal accepted appeals from civil and criminal courts. Later its competency was expanded to include military and tax appeals and cases involving misconduct of lower tier courts. ref name andri The Tribunal met initially four, later twice a year first in Vilnius in the Vilnius Cathedral Square Cathedral Square , but later the location was alternated between Minsk and Navahrudak . The alternating location disrupted court s work as personnel, documents, and archives had to be moved frequently. ref name andri The Tribunal did not have ... Category Lithuanian courts Category 1581 in law Category 1581 establishments Category 1795 disestablishments ... more details
army. In 1918 Lithuanian independence was restored, and in 1919 the Lithuanian government concluded .... During the years after WWI, Lithuanian Railways reconstructed the tracks, connecting them into a complete ... a part of the Lithuanian railway system. In 1940 the USSR occupied Lithuania, and railway activities ... The History Pages of Lithuanian Railways ref Rolling stock File Sodai ..., in English, Russian and Lithuanian http www.randburg.com li lithrailways.html Lithuanian Railways ... more details
otheruses Image Bunker of lith partisans.jpg thumb right 300px The Lithuanian partisans often used cellars, tunnels or more complex underground bunker s such as the one depicted here The Lithuanian partisans ... 1945. As Stalinist political repression repression intensified, thousands of Lithuanian residents used ... SS division. In 1944 the Nazi authorities created 20,000 strong Lithuanian Territorial Defense ... name Kaszeta Kaszeta, Daniel J. http www.lituanus.org 1988 88 3 01.htm Lithuanian Resistance to Foreign ... Mackevici ius, Me islovas. http www.lituanus.org 1986 86 4 02.htm Lithuanian Resistance to German ... , Feltrinelli Editore IT, 2003. ISBN 88 07 99058 X ref Captured Lithuanian Forest Brothers themselves ... For Freedom , unknown year. ref On February 16, 1949 the Joint Staff of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom ... of Southern Lithuanian Tauras and Dainavos Apygardos districts , Eastern Lithuanian Algimantas , Did ioji Kova , Vytis and Vytautas districts, Western Lithuanian K stutis , Prisik limas and emai iai ... of the Lietuvos Laisv s Kovotoj S j dis or Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters , noted the following ... until better sourced Some estimates put Lithuanian deaths as high as 40,000. Comparisons have been drawn between the Soviet Lithuanian conflict and the Soviet war in Afghanistan . Juozas Luk a was among ... having returned to occupied Lithuania in 1951. Pranas Kon ius code name Adomas , was the last Lithuanian ... By the early 1950s, the Soviet forces had eradicated most of the Lithuanian nationalist resistance ... Conference , Western betrayal As the conflict was relatively undocumented by the Soviet Union the Lithuanian ... it and the Soviet Lithuanian conflict as a whole to be an unknown or forgotten war . ref name ... under the Soviet regime. Writings on the subject by the Lithuanian emigrants were often labelled ... Europe Review, Vol. 1, No. 12, September 13, 1999. ISSN 1212 8732 ref In 1999, the Lithuanian ... . cquote ... a universal, organised, armed resistance namely, self defence, by the Lithuanian State ... more details
File Cepelinai Sauce.JPG thumb Cepelinai zeppelins , a potato based dumpling dish characteristic of Lithuanian cuisine Lithuanian cuisine features the products suited to the cool and moist northern climate ... and agricultural practices with Eastern Europe , Lithuanian cuisine has much in common with Eastern .... Thus there are similar Lithuanian, Litvak , and Polish versions of dumplings kold nai , kreplach ... Lithuanian cuisine, introducing pork and potato dishes, such as potato pudding kugelis or kugel ... century. The Soviet occupation badly damaged Lithuanian cuisine. As elsewhere in the Soviet ... of the ways to celebrate Lithuanian identity. Despite the apparent richness of the cuisine, Lithuania ... & adolescent medicine , 2004 January 158 1 27 33. ref Staples Bread File Lithuanian traditional bread.jpg thumb Traditionally, the centerpiece of Lithuanian cuisine is dark rye bread rugin duona which .... Some varieties of Lithuanian bread contain whole seeds of rye and wheat this type of bread is referred ... here, also. Vegetables and spices The most commonly used vegetable in Lithuanian recipes is the potato .... Lithuanian herbs and seasonings include dill krapai , caraway seed kmynai , garlic , bay leaf ... One of the prides of Lithuanian cuisine is its wide use of wild berries and mushrooms. Mushrooming is a popular ... be imported, and hence were used less often an orange in a Lithuanian Christmas stocking was an annual ... an important role in Lithuanian cuisine cottage cheese may be sweet, sour, seasoned with caraway, fresh, or cured until semi soft. The most popular way of eating Lithuanian non fermented white cheese is with fresh honey it can also be cooked with spices and enjoyed with tea. Lithuanian butters and cream are unusually rich. Sour cream is so prominent in Lithuanian cuisine, that it is eaten with everything meat, fish, pancakes, soups, desserts, salads and so on. Lithuanian curd snacks called s reliai ... hard boiled eggs are often served alongside to add color, texture, and thermal contrast. Lithuanian ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Lithuanian Supercup is a one match football soccer football annual competition. The match is played at the beginning of the season, typically in late March. The two participating clubs are holders of the A Lyga champions title and the Lithuanian football Cup . If the Lithuanian championship and the Cup are won by the same team, then there is no match and the Supercup gets awarded automatically to the winning team. The trophy has been contested since 1995 with only 4 interruptions. Past Winners of the Cup class wikitable Year Winner Runner up Score City 1995 FK Inkaras Kaunas Inkaras Grifas Kaunas 1996 FK iauliai Kareda iauliai FK Inkaras Kaunas Inkaras Grifas Kaunas 2 1 Marijampol 1998 FK Ekranas Ekranas Panev ys Kareda iauliai 3 0 K dainiai 2002 FBK Kaunas 2003 FK algiris Vilnius FBK Kaunas 2 1 iauliai 2004 FBK Kaunas 2006 FK Ekranas Ekranas Panev ys FBK Kaunas 2 1 Palanga 2007 FBK Kaunas FK S duva Marijampol S duva Marijampol 1 0 Marijampol 2009 FK S duva Marijampol S duva Marijampol FK Ekranas Ekranas Panev ys 2 1 pen. iauliai Football in Lithuania National football Supercups UEFA region Category National association football supercups Lithuania Category Football competitions in Lithuania Supercup Lithuania footy competition stub fa fr Supercoupe de Lituanie de football it LFF Supertaur lt LFF Supertaur pl Superpuchar Litwy w pi ce no nej ru uk ... more details
refimprove date June 2006 1960s 1970s During this period, the Communist government of the Lithuanian ... World the West . The younger post World War II Lithuanian generation under Soviet rule had few ... onto magnetic tape . The Beatles were one of the first influences on Lithuanian rock musicians. The first ... , sometimes adapting Lithuanian lyrics to these songs. The dominance of covers bands started to change ... lyrics and those of other Lithuanian poets. ref lt icon http countrysaloon.lt index.php?option com content&task view&id 58&Itemid 62 Short history of Lithuanian country music by Algirdas Klova ref ... was staged by Lithuanian composer K stutis Antan lis on December 25, 1971 at the Vilnius Academy ... in the 1980s, during which time several influential Lithuanian bands emerged. Poet and musician Romas ..., in 1999. Foje 1983 saw the emergence of one of the most famous, influential and popular Lithuanian ... in major Lithuanian cities. The second comeback occurred in 2003 on the occasion of the release ... their last appearance on the stage to date. BIX Another phenomenon of the Lithuanian rock scene ... is the same on an occasional basis. Katedra Katedra best known Lithuanian heavy metal band ... band among the Lithuanian underground. More recent acts of this genre are ska punk band Dr.Green ... . Skyl from Vilnius became the favorites of Lithuanian philology students due to their often acoustic, intimate sound and poetic lyrics. Airija the name is Lithuanian for Ireland from Alytus skillfully ... lt.naujienos . 2005 marked the beginning of the recovery of Lithuanian rock music. The number of rock festivals has increased while new bands are slowly finding their way into the Lithuanian media ... amongst others. The Lithuanian gothic rock gothic scene is not very big, but has strong support from Lithuanian Goths . There are several bands representing this style. Siela band Siela and Mano Juodoji ... Lithuanian lyrics. Another interesting and original folk rock band Atalyja is worth mentioning in this context ... more details
In Lithuanian language , for long or heavy syllable heavy syllables, there are two accents pitches ref In a summary of a A. Pakerys book 1982, Lietuvi bendrin s kalbos prozodija priegaid is translated as an accent in a R. Kudirka s article, for example, http www.ceeol.com aspx getdocument.aspx?logid 5&id ffe732e9 c56d 11da 8299 005022b04780 Acoustic features of pitch in Standard Lithuanian monophthongs it is translated as a pitch. ref of stress, referred to as a start firm tvirtapr d pr egaid also called sudden, falling, acute and an end firm tvirtag l also called continued, rising, circumflex in a common naming in Lithuanian. Among naming more adequate to the factual accents are sudden, sharper for a start firm and continued, more level for an end firm accent. Short or light syllables have stress without differentiation of accent. Start firm accent is marked by acute accent acute or grave in some diphthongs, end firm by tilde and stressed short vowels by grave accent grave . Stress Lithuanian Stress linguistics stress is free, some words have it in the last syllable, some in the next to last, third from the ending, fourth. Few have it in the fifth and a few in the sixth syllable from the ending. For some stems it is steady in the variant inflected forms, for other moving, thus making up, for example, four patterns of noun and adjective accentuation. Lithuanian stress is a complex of acoustics acoustic features, the most powerful of which is loudness strength, intensity of voice ... Lithuanian monophthongs url http www.ceeol.com aspx getdocument.aspx?logid 5&id ffe732e9 c56d ... speakers of standard Lithuanian year 2005 ref These features have different importance in the dialects ... Girdenis F. Kur aitis in his Grammar of Lithuanian language Grammatik der littauischen Sprache, 1876 ... and locative, plural accusative and locative. Nouns Lithuanian nominal stems are divided into four ... written by in dictionaries, and if an end firm or short, the mark is 3b, 34b, 35b, 36b the number ... more details
The Lithuanian Chronicles lang lt Lietuvos metra iai are three redaction s of chronicles compiled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . All redactions were written in the Old Church Slavonic language and served the needs of Lithuanian patriotism. ref name tar The first redaction, compiled in 1420s, glorified Vytautas the Great and supported his side in power struggles. The second redaction, prepared in the first half of the 16th century, started the myth of Lithuanian Roman origin it gave a fanciful genealogy of Palemon , a noble from the Roman Empire who founded the Grand Duchy. This noble origin of Lithuanians was important in cultural rivalry with the Kingdom of Poland 1385 1569 Kingdom of Poland . The third redaction, known only from the Bychowiec Chronicle , elaborated even further on the legend, but also provided some useful information about the second half of the 15th century. The three ... written by Vytautas in 1390 during the Lithuanian Civil War 1389 1392 . ref name el cite encyclopedia editor Simas Su ied lis encyclopedia Encyclopedia Lituanica title Chronicles, Lithuanian year 1970 ..., written by Gerasim, a story about Podlaskie , written in 1431 1435 to support the Lithuanian side ... veik jai ir j prototipai Rom nai The personages of the Lithuanian chronicles and their prototypes The Romans journal Ancient Lithuanian Literature year 2004 first K stutis last Gudmantas coauthors volume ... of the Lithuanian state to the 1st century, when legendary Palemon escaped from Roman ... discount the text as useless, it can still provide useful bits and pieces of Lithuanian history ... of political tensions and cultural ideology of the Lithuanian nobles in the 16th century. This myth served Lithuanian interests in conflicts with Poland and Russia. Poland, then in Polish Lithuanian ... land. By creating fanciful genealogies, linking Lithuanians with noble Romans, the Lithuanian nobility ... of the Lithuanian nobility, formed basis for the Lithuanian historiography until the dawn of the 20th ... more details
The Lithuanian Hound lang lt Lietuvi skalikas is a rare, medium size hunting dog from Lithuania . It is sturdy and heavily boned, but also sleek but with muscular, with a short black coat with some brown on snout, chest, ears, forehead. ref name did The official standard allows for a small white spot on the chest, but not on toes. ref name did The dog s long tail is naturally low. The head is large, chest is broad, deep and low. Ears are long with rounded tips, and hang close to cheeks. ref name did Neck is quite long and strong with no dewlap . The feet are strong and round, with compact toes, helping it be a fast, very agile, and determined pursuer. ref name did The Lithuanian Hound has been traditionally used to hunt hare , fox , and boar . The breed is mentioned in the Statutes of Lithuania 16th century . It is believed that it comes from the mixing of bloodhound s with several other hound breeds. ref name lte Once a popular breed in Lithuania, the population decreased to 78 individuals after World War II. ref lt icon cite journal url http vetzoo.lva.lt data vols 2001 12 lt jareckaite.pdf first Neringa last Jareckait title Lietuvi skalikai veisl s standartizacija, dinamika, paplitimas journal Veterinarija ir zootechnika volume 12 issue 34 year 2001 issn 1392 2130 ref Thanks to several enthusiasts, the hound was revived, standardized, and the number of registered and documented dogs reached around 350 in 1987. ref name lte lt icon cite encyclopedia editor Jonas Zinkus, et al. encyclopedia Taryb Lietuvos enciklopedija title Skalikas year 1985 1988 publisher Vyriausioji enciklopedij redakcija volume IV location Vilnius, Lithuania id LCC 86232954 page 19 ref After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the breed decreased to around 150 individuals by 1998. ref name did ... volume 2 issue 15 ref The decrease in popularity is explained by changing hunting habits the Lithuanian ... are decreasing in size. ref name did The Lithuanian Cynological Society plans to register the breed ... more details
Lithuanian language Lithuanian declension is quite sophisticated in a way similar to declensions in ancient Indo European languages such as Sanskrit language Sanskrit , Latin language Latin or Ancient Greek language Ancient Greek . It also is one of the most complicated declension systems among modern Indo European and modern European languages Citation needed reason 2010 Feb 3 date February 2010 . Traditionally, scholars count up to ten case linguistics case forms in Lithuanian. However at least one case is reduced to adverb s, and another is extinct in the modern language. So the official variant of Lithuanian has seven cases, and an eighth case is used in some dialects and reduced to an adverb in others. The main cases are nominative case nominative used to identify the inflection type genitive case genitive used to identify the inflection type Dative case dative Accusative case accusative Instrumental case instrumental locative case locative vocative case vocative illative case illative dialectal allative case allative reduced to adverbs adessive case adessive Lithuanian has two main ..., how to make, for example, the plural inflection from the singular of the same case. Nouns Lithuanian ... masculine case. There was also possibly a word broteris brother modern brolis in old Lithuanian. div ... Each Lithuanian consonant except j has two Lithuanian language Consonants 2 forms palatalized and non ... i and i . Other diphthongs are uo, ai, ei, oi this one is used only in foreign words in Lithuanian ... consonants in Lithuanian, d and t, which become respectively d IPA d and IPA t when precedes ... linden July, gij thread, ply palatalized vali will, gali power, prad i beginning. Lithuanian vowel Lithuanian language Vowels o IPA o Lithuanian language Change and variation derives from an older ... vand enys ses erie ses erys dukt erie dukt erys Adjectives In Lithuanian language adjectives have three ... masculine, see the list below The a paradigm is the most complex declension paradigm in Lithuanian ... more details
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