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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 ...
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 ...
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°).
Lithuanians' contacts with the Christian religion predated the establishment of the Duchy of Lithuania in the 13th century. The first known record of the name Lithuania (Litua), recorded in the Annals of Quedlinburg in 1009, relates to Chalcedonian missionaries led by Bruno of Querfurt, who baptised several rulers of the Yotvingians, a nearby Baltic tribe.
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 ...
The Poles of Lithuania (Polish: Polacy na Litwie, Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, [3][4] estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian census of 2021 or 6.5% of Lithuania 's total population, are the country's largest ethnic minority. During the Polish–Lithuanian union, there was an influx of Poles into the Grand ...