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Samogitian uprisings refer to two uprisings by the Samogitians against the Teutonic Knights in 1401–1404 and 1409. Samogitia was granted to the Teutonic Knights by Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania, several times in order to enlist Knights' support for his other military affairs. The local population resisted Teutonic rule and asked ...
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Samogitia, often known by its Lithuanian name Žemaitija [a] (Samogitian: Žemaitėjė; see below for alternative and historical names) is one of the five cultural regions of Lithuania and formerly one of the two core administrative divisions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania alongside Lithuania proper. [2] Žemaitija is located in northwestern ...
The Battle of Skuodas or Schoden [2] was a medieval battle fought in ca. 1259 near Skuodas in present-day Lithuania during the Lithuanian Crusade.The Samogitian army of 3,000 invaded Courland and on their way back defeated the Livonian Order, killing 33 knights and many more low-rank soldiers. [3]
The Samogitian language differs the most from the standard Lithuanian language. [1] Whether Samogitians are considered to be a distinct ethnic group or merely a subset of Lithuanians varies. However, 2,169 people declared their ethnicity as Samogitian during the Lithuanian census of 2011, of whom 53.9% live in Telšiai County. [2]
The Duchy of Samogitia (Lithuanian: Žemaičių seniūnija, Samogitian: Žemaitėjės seniūnėjė, Polish: Księstwo żmudzkie) [1] was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1422 (and from 1569, a member country of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). Between 1422 and 1441 it was known as the Eldership of Samogitia.
Gang Dong-won as Cheon-yeong in <i>Uprising</i> Credit - Courtesy of Netflix. Uprising, Netflix’s new Korean action-war epic, spans decades as it follows the fraught friendship between Cheon ...
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