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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, [5] succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, [6] when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.
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The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia is a duchy in the Baltic region that existed from 1562 to 1791 as a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1685, District of Pilten was in union with the duchy.
Duchy of Livonia (joint dominion) In the early 17th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in Europe, comprising about 1,000,000 km 2 (390,000 sq mi) of land with a population of some 12 000 000 people (5m Ruthenians , 4.5m Poles , 0.75m Lithuanians , 0.75m Prussians , 0.5m Jews and 0.5m ...
The map shows borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its administrative subdivisions (voivodeships and powiats). [23] The map was the first map to indicate terms Ukraine and Cossacks . [ 24 ] The territory of Ukraine (also labeled as Outer Volhynia or Lower Dnieper) spanned from Kiev in the north to Korsun in the south.
Swedish Lithuania, officially known as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Swedish: Storfurstendömet Litauen, Latin: Magnus Ducatus Lituaniæ), was a dominium directum protectorate of the Swedish Empire under the rule of King Charles X Gustav in accordance with the Union of Kėdainiai.
The papal bull regarding Lithuania's placement under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome. In the early 13th century, Lithuania was inhabited by various pagan Baltic tribes, which began to organize themselves into a state – the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. By the 1230s, Mindaugas emerged as the leader of the Grand Duchy.
For most of its existence, it was a constituent part and a nucleus of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Other alternative names of the territorial formation, used in different periods, were Aukštaitija or Land of Lithuania (13th century), Duchy of Vilnius (14th – early 15th centuries), [2] Lithuania proper, or simply Lithuania (in a narrow sense).