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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).
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 political recognition and cultural understanding of the Samogitian ethnicity has, however, changed drastically throughout the last few centuries as 448,022 people declared themselves Samogitians, not ...
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.
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.
As of 2013, there were 33 Lourdes grottoes in Lithuania, mainly in Samogitia. [2] The list below includes only the key sites that continue to be visited by pilgrims.
In early 1381, without violating the Treaty of Dovydiškės, the Teutonic Knights raided the Duchy of Trakai and Samogitia twice. [2] While raiding towards Trakai, the Teutonic Knights used bombards for the first time [ 13 ] and destroyed Naujapilis, taking some 3,000 prisoners. [ 8 ]
In 1382, Jogaila had promised the Knights Samogitia only up to the Dubysa River, but never ratified the Treaty of Dubysa. [2] Samogitia was important for the Knights as this territory physically separated them from uniting with the Livonian Order to the north. Vytautas also promised to become the Order's vassal. [1]
The self-elected Elders of Samogitia were only confirmed by the Grand Duke of Lithuania. [8] Samogitian nobility, especially its lower class, preserved knowledge of the Lithuanian language very well. [9] In fact, the Lithuanian language remained dominant in Samogitia and its nobility throughout the early modern period. [10]