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Justinas Marcinkevičius and pedagogist Meilė Lukšienė during the Constituent Congress of Sąjūdis, 1988 Marcinkevičius was born in 1930 in Važatkiemis, Prienai District . In 1954, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Vilnius University with a degree in Lithuanian language and literature .
Mindaugas was the only Lithuanian monarch crowned king with the assent of the Pope and the head of the first catholic Lithuanian state. The formation of the kingdom is widely regarded as a partially successful attempt at unifying all surrounding Baltic tribes, including the Old Prussians, into a single unified state under a common king. [2]
During the summer of 1253, he was crowned king, [4] ruling between 300,000 and 400,000 subjects, and got nicknamed as Mindaugas the Sapient by the Livonians. [5] [6] While Mindaugas's ten-year reign as king was marked by many state-building accomplishments, his conflicts with relatives and other dukes continued.
A new "20/20" episode, "File ‘M’ for Murder" airing Friday, Feb. 7, at 9 p.m. ET and streaming the next day on Hulu, examines the case. "Police quickly work to gather information about the ...
Herzog von Urach; 3 March 1864 – 24 March 1928), was a German prince who was elected in June 1918 as King of Lithuania, with the regnal name of Mindaugas II. He never assumed the crown, however, as German authorities declared the election invalid; [ 1 ] the invitation was withdrawn in November 1918.
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For half a century, the economy in Connell, Washington, was hotter than oil. Up until last fall, this plant processed 300 million pounds of potatoes into french fries every year.
In the words of historians, when Mindaugas I died in 1263, the Kingdom had disappeared as well. However, after almost 100 years, in the 14th century, Gediminas would send his letters proclaiming to be "King of Lithuanians and many Ruthenians." In November 1918, the State Council left the question of Mindaugas II to the Constituent Assembly. And ...