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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]
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.
Lietuvos ir Žemaičių Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės metraštis: monografinis leidimas ir kritinis leidimas. Chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Samogitia. A Study and a Critical Edition (in Lithuanian and English). Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. p. 459. ISBN 978-609-425-127-6
In 1253 Grand Duke Mindaugas ceded one part of the Samogitia territory, including some of the district around Raseiniai, to the Livonian Order, and the rest to the first bishop of Lithuania, Kristyan. In the 14th–18th centuries, Raseiniai was one of the most important towns in the Samogitia region.
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.
Samogitian (endonym: žemaitiu kalba or sometimes žemaitiu rokunda, žemaitiu šnekta or žemaitiu ruoda; Lithuanian: žemaičių tarmė, žemaičių kalba), [2] [3] often considered a dialect of Lithuanian, is an Eastern Baltic language spoken primarily in Samogitia.
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Anything pertaining to Samogitia (Žemaitija), the Lowlands of Lithuania; Samogitians, inhabitants of Samogitia; Samogitian dialect, a dialect of the Lithuanian language, sometimes regarded as a separate language