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Area of the Lithuanian language in the 16th century. The name of Lithuania – Lithuanians – was first mentioned in 1009. Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes ('susilieti, lietis' means to unite and the word 'lietuva' means ...
In Norway there are 45,415 Lithuanians living in the country and it has in a short time become the second largest ethnic minority in the country, making up 0.85% of Norway's total population, and 4.81% of all foreign residents in Norway. [46] There are around 3,500 Lithuanians in Iceland, making around 1% of the total population.
Physical map and geomorphological subdivision of Lithuania. Lithuania is located in the Baltic region of Europe [ a ] and covers an area of 65,300 km 2 (25,200 sq mi). [ 56 ] It lies between latitudes 53° and 57° N, and mostly between longitudes 21° and 27° E (part of the Curonian Spit lies west of 21°).
173.1 cm (5 ft 8 in) — — 18+ (N= m:1,551) 100.0%: Measured: 2013–2014 [178] [179] [180] Spain: 177.3 cm (5 ft 10 in) 164 cm (5 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.08: 18.1–24 (N= m:1,275 f:1,292) — Measured: 2008 [181] Spain — 159.6 cm (5 ft 3 in) — 18–70 (N= f:8,217) 83.5%: Measured: 2007–2008 [37] [182] [179] [183] Spain: 174 cm (5 ft 8 ...
[1] [2] Situated along the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, sharing borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. Lithuania is a member of NATO, OECD and the European Union. Its population is about 2.8 million. The largest city and capital is Vilnius.
The Lithuanian nation began to form in about 7th – 8th centuries CE. The growing difference between Western and Eastern Balts was a result of some cultural modernization of the Eastern Balts even before this period. Differences also grew between northern and southern parts of the Eastern Balts. Lithuanians derived from the southern parts of ...
Lithuania Minor and the other historical ethnographic regions of Lithuania. Lithuania Minor (Lithuanian: Mažoji Lietuva; Polish: Litwa Mniejsza; Russian: Ма́лая Литва́; German: Kleinlitauen), or Prussian Lithuania (Lithuanian: Prūsų Lietuva; Polish: Litwa Pruska; German: Preußisch-Litauen), is a historical ethnographic region of Prussia, where Prussian Lithuanians (or ...
Lithuanian Americans (Lithuanian: Amerikos lietuviai) refers to American citizens and residents who are Lithuanian and were born in Lithuania, or are of Lithuanian descent. [2] New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has the largest percentage of Lithuanian Americans (20.8%) in its population in the United States. Lithuanian Americans form by far the ...