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/Home/Historical Studies/History/Regional History/Europe/Lithuania HISTORY Votes:0 History Cultural Timeline Rulers of Lithuania The rich culture of Lithuania goes back thousands of years. Lithuanians are a branch of the Balts whose settlement dates back to around 200 B.C. Lithuanian is one of the oldest languages in Europe. The first written mention of Lithuania was in the Annales Quedlinburgenses in 1009 A.D. The first Lithuanian state was established by the Grand Duke Mindaugas in 1230. He converted to Christianity briefly and was crowned king of Lithuania in 1252. The Grand Duke Gediminas, who reigned from 1316 to 1341, is credited with founding Vilnius at the confluence of Neris and Vilnia rivers - and a dynasty that united Lithuania and Poland from 1386 until 1795. Lithuania reached its height under the Grand Duke Vytautas the Great, who ruled from 1392 to 1430. He Read More Go to Site History of Lithuania Votes:0 Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Free Travel Cheap Tickets Auction Newsletter Immigration Affiliate Make Money Lithuania HISTORY The earliest evidence of inhabitants in present-day Lithuania dates back to 10,000 BC. Between 3,000-2,000 BC, the cord-ware culture people spread over a vast region of Eastern Europe, between the Baltic Sea and the Vistula River in the west and the Moscow-Kursk line in the east. Merging with the indigenous population, they gave rise to the Balts, a distinct Indo-European ethnic group whose descendants are the present-day Lithuanian and Latvian nations and the now extinct Prussians. The first written mention of Lithuania occurs in 1009 AD, although many centuries earlier the Roman historian Tacitus referred to the Lithuanians as exc Read More Go to Site Political Leaders: Lithuania Votes:0 A.link {color:#0000ff;text-decoration:none;} A.link:active {color:#0000ff;} A.link:visited {color:#000080;} A.link:hover {color:#ff0000;text-decoration:underline;} A.link:visited:hover {color:#ff0000;} Leaders of Lithuania (Republic of Lithuania) [ To the list of countries ] [ To the ZPC Homepage ] Look for biographies of the leaders (in Spanish) at CIDOB website . See also former USSR for data before 1990 as well as detailed page on Lithuanian Governments since 1990 to know more about the ruling parties. Current parties : LKDP and LKD : Lithuanian Christian Democrats (1989) TS(LK) : Homeland Union (Conservatives of Lithuania) (1993) NS : New Union (Social Liberals) (1998) LSDP (new): Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (2001) LDP : Liberal Democratic Party (2002) LCS : Liberal and Center U Read More Go to Site

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