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[7] The chronicle served as a source for the Bychowiec Chronicle (c. 1574), the Chronicle of Stryjkowski [uk; be; ru] (Chronicle of Poland, Lithuania, Samogitia and all Rus ') by Maciej Stryjkowski, and Teodor Narbutt's compilation History of the Lithuanian People (1840s).
Samogitia historically was an autonomous region in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, although it lost this status once Lithuania was annexed by the Russian Empire following the Third Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 as a part of the Vilnius Governorate.
The predecessor to the party, the "Samogitians Were, Are and Will Be" Initiative Group (Samogitian: Žemaitē bova, īr ė būs, Lithuanian: Žemaičiai buvo, yra ir bus) was founded on 5 July 2007 by five founding members - including former Order and Justice Member of the Seimas Egidijus Skarbalius [] and Guinness World Record holder for the strongest beard Antanas Kontrimas []. [2]
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania's new centre-left government took office on Thursday, led by Social Democrat Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas and including a party whose leader is on trial accused ...
Samogitians (Samogitian: žemaitē, Lithuanian: žemaičiai, Latvian: žemaiši) are the inhabitants of Samogitia, an ethnographic region of Lithuania.Many speak the Samogitian language, which in Lithuania is mostly considered a dialect of the Lithuanian language together with the Aukštaitian dialect. [1]
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.
Samogitia and Lithuania proper in a 1712 map by Henri Chatelain. The Duchy was located in what today is several counties (apskritis) in Lithuania: a small part of Kaunas County (Kauno Apskritis), the western part Šiauliai County (Šiaulių Apskritis), Tauragė County (Tauragės Apskritis), Telšiai County (Telšių Apskritis), the northern part of Klaipėda County (Klaipėdos Apskritis) and ...
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