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Lithuania

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Lith·u·a·ni·a  (lth-n-)
A country of north-central Europe on the Baltic Sea. Settled perhaps as early as 1500 b.c., the area was unified in the 13th century and became one of the largest states of medieval Europe. Lithuania merged with Poland in 1569 but was absorbed into Russia by three partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, and 1795). The independent country of Lithuania existed from 1918 to 1940, when it became a constituent republic of the USSR. Occupied by Germany from 1941 to 1944, it reverted to Soviet rule after World War II and was known as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic before achieving independence in 1991. Vilnius is the capital and the largest city. Population: 3,590,000.
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Lithuania
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Noun1.LithuaniaLithuania - a republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea
Lietuva, Republic of Lithuania
Klaipeda, Memel - a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League
capital of Lithuania, Vilna, Vilnius, Vilno, Wilno - the capital and largest city of Lithuania; located in southeastern Lithuania
Kaunas, Kovna, Kovno - a city in central Lithuania
Lithuanian - a native or inhabitant of Lithuania
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Lithuania [lɪθjuˈeɪnɪə] n → Lituania
Lithuania [lɪθjuˈeɪnɪə] n → Lituanie f
Lithuania [lɪθjuˈeɪnɪə] n → Litauen nt
Lithuania [lɪθjuˈeɪnɪə] n → Lituania


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It was one of the laws of the veselija that no one goes hungry; and, while a rule made in the forests of Lithuania is hard to apply in the stockyards district of Chicago, with its quarter of a million inhabitants, still they did their best, and the children who ran in from the street, and even the dogs, went out again happier.
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Here fluttered many an outland pennon, bearing symbol and blazonry from the banks of the Danube, the wilds of Lithuania and the mountain strongholds of Hungary; for chivalry was of no clime and of no race, nor was any land so wild that the fame and name of the prince had not sounded through it from border to border.
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