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Per Kalėdas būdavo keliamasi anksti, nudengiamas Kūčių stalas, žiūrima, ar neapsilankė vėlės. Nuo stalo nuimtą šieną dalindavo gyvuliams.

Tradicinis Kalėdų valgis buvo šerniena arba kiauliena. Prieš Kalėdas neretai skersdavo kiaulę ir atlikdavo skerstuvių apeigas. Paskerstos kiaulės galvą papuošdavo žalumynais. Kiaulienos valgymas bei aukojimas buvo magiška priemonė padidinti žemės derlingumui.

Pirmą Kalėdų dieną žmonės būdavo rimtai nusiteikę, niekur neidavo, nieko nedirbdavo, užsiimdavo būrimais. Šaltos Kalėdos reiškė vėlyvą pavasarį, saulėta diena – derlingus metus.

Svarbią reikšmę turėjo linkėjimai bei sveikinimai. Apeiginius linkėjimus atlikinėjo žyniai, persirengėliai. Vėliau šis paprotys išliko kaip vaikščiojimas persirengus Kalėdų seniu arba Kalėda, gero derliaus linkėjimas. Pranė Dundulienė mano, kad Kalėdų senis vaizduodavo sudievintą prosenį arba žynį kalėdotoją, kuris užkalbinėdavo būsimą derlių, aukodavo namų dievams, vaizduodavo būsimąją magišką sėją. Vėliau kalėdojimo apeigas pradėjo atlikinėti patys valstiečiai, lankydami vieni kitus, persirengę gyvuliais, nepažįstamais žmonėmis. Ypač svarbų vaidmenį vaidino persirenginėjimas ožiais ir jaučiais, kurie simbolizavo vaisingumą ir derlingumą. Kalėdojimas prasidėdavo per Kalėdas ir trukdavo iki Trijų karalių.

Kadangi manyta, jog per Kalėdas namuose renkasi vėlės, kartais kaip avys ar žalčiai, buvo atliekamos apeigos su avimis ir žalčiais.

Kalėdų dainoms būdingi priedainiai „leliu kalėda“, „leliumai“, „alelium kalėda“, „aladumai ladum“. Dainose garbinama sugrįžtanti saulė. Šias dainas katalikų dvasininkija draudė giedoti. Sugrįžtanti saulė giesmėse vaizduojama moterimi su perlų vainiku ir kitaip. Dažnas žydinčio medžio motyvas, simbolizuojantis pasaulio medį, taip pat besiartinantį pavasarį. Neretai minimas devyniaragis elnias, garbintas kaip žiemos nugalėtojas, atgimstančio pavasario simbolis. Saulė vaizduojama žydinti, besidabinanti, besimainanti.

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Per Kalėdas namai buvo puošiami eglės šakomis. Neaišku, ar buvo puošiamos pačios šakos. Eglės šakas dažnai puošdavo mediniais išdrožtais papuošimais.

Laikotarpis nuo Kalėdų iki Trijų karalių buvo vadinamas tarpušvenčiais, tarpkalėdžiais ir pan., o tų dienų vakarais žmonės nieko nedirbo, bijodami antgamtinių esybių, dvasių.

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Kalėdaičiai buvo paplitę visoje Lietuvos didžiojoje kunigaikštystėje. Šiuos paplotėlius kepdavo dažniausiai vienuoliai ir siųsdavo daugiausia didikams bei vienuolynų geradariams.

Kalėdaičiais neprekiaujama įprastose prekyvietėse. Prieš kiekvienas Kalėdas jų galima įsigyti tik bažnyčiose. Dabar jie dažniausiai atvežami iš kaimyninės Lenkijos, turinčios jau išvystytą kalėdaičių kepimo indrustriją. Lietuvoje šiandien kalėdaičiai savo reikmėms dar kepami viename kitame vienuolyne ar provincijos bažnytėlėje. Į kalėdaičius kartais įkepami rūtų ar kitų žiedų lapeliai. Paplotėliai gali būti ne tik balti, bet ir šiek tiek spalvinti, į tešlą įmaišant maistinių dažų. Ant Kūčių stalo dedama lėkštelė su tiek paplotėlių, kiek bus žmonių prie stalo.

Varniuose įsikūrusiame Žemaičių vyskupystės muziejuje, artėjant Kalėdoms, vykdoma edukacinė programa, kuri vadinasi „Kalėdaičio gimimas“. Čia patiems galima išsikepti kalėdaitį.

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In 1888, production of chocolate and other products arrived to Kaunas, situated in the south-centre of Lithuania. Due to this, artisans started to elaborate upon new recipes with chocolate, such as chocolate and biscuits and chocolate with raisins or hazelnuts. In Lithuania different types of hazelnuts are available because there are a great variety of forests, so they are used frequently.

Lithuanians also began to make cognac sweetened with chocolate and created new liquors that utilized chocolate. More elaborate recipes were created, such as the sweet called "tinginys," which means "lazy".

In 1967 a woman accidentally created the recipe; she tried to cook chocolate but added too much sugar, which liquefied the mixture into a syrup. To remedy this, the woman tried to make the savour less strong by adding some biscuits, so she broke them into pieces, mixed them with the syrup and when it cooled, the first Tinginys was created. Later modifications occurred, such as letting the mixture cool down and rolling it on a plastic bag, and then cutting it into pieces. People decided to call it "lazy" because it was very easy and quick to prepare.

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The cake became popular during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1791). Its origins are attributed to either the Italian Queen Bona Sforza of Poland or the Baltic tribe of Yotvingians. The Yotvingians settled in the early and high Middle Ages in Podlasie, while Bona Sforza is known to have implemented many agriculture, infrastructure and manufacture reforms.

Its name means "branched tree" or "tree with many branches" due to its distinctive shape (it is often conical, like a pine tree, and with the drips as branches). It is baked in a time- and labor-intensive process,by painting layers of dough onto a rotating spit in a special open oven or over an open fire.

It can be decorated with chocolate and flower ornaments, but it is often served plain. Šakotis is one of the most important desserts in Lithuanian celebrations, especially at weddings or other special occasions such as Christmas.

It was the sweet chosen to represent Lithuania in the Café Europe initiative of the Austrian presidency of the European Union, on Europe Day 2006.

In May 2015, in Druskininkai, Lithuania the record of the biggest šakotis was broken with 372 centimetres (12.20 ft) height and 85.8 kilograms (189 lb) weight.

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Cepelinai (lit. 'zeppelins'; singular: cepelinas) or didžkukuliai is a traditional Lithuanian dish of stuffed potato dumplings. The dumplings are made from grated and riced potatoes and stuffed with ground meat or dry cottage cheese (curd) or mushrooms. It has been described as a national dish of Lithuania, and is typically served as an entree.

So named because their shape resembles that of a Zeppelin airship, cepelinai are typically around 10–20 cm long, although the size depends on where they are made: in the western counties of Lithuania cepelinai are made bigger than in the east.[citation needed]
After boiling, the cepelinai are sometimes served with sour cream sauce and bacon bits[1] or pork rinds.
Similar dishes include Swedish kroppkaka, Acadian poutine râpée, Norwegian raspeball and German Kartoffelklöße.

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Šaltibarščiai (lenk. Chłodnik litewski, latv. Aukstā zupa) – Rytų Europos šalių (Lietuvos, Lenkijos, Latvijos, Rusijos, Baltarusijos) tradicinė šalta barščių sriuba.
Supjaustomi ir išverdami švieži burokėliai (kartais ir drauge su lapais). Atšaldžius burokėlių sriubą dedamas pienas, kefyras, agurkai, kietai virtas kiaušinis, morkos, pagardinama krapais, svogūnų laiškais ir petražolėmis. Sriuba valgoma su virtomis bulvėmis.

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Lithuania is not very well known for its beer, but it is one of the few countries in Europe to have an independent beer tradition in which breweries do not simply brew beers in styles developed elsewhere. Traditional farmhouse brewing has survived into the present day in Lithuania, and during Soviet times such brewing started to be expanded to a larger scale. After independence this process gathered speed, and soon there were more than 200 breweries in the country. Many of these have since gone out of business, but Lithuania still has about 80 breweries, of which perhaps 60-70 produce beers in styles unknown in the rest of the world. Some of these are very close to the traditional brews made by farmers, while others have developed out of that tradition as a consequence of the growth of the traditional brewers into reasonably large regional breweries.
The microbrewery scene in Lithuania has been growing in later years, with a number of bars focusing on these beers popping up in Vilnius and also in other parts of the country. Locals beers have started to attract international attention after beer bloggers discovered the country, inspiring a major feature article in Beer Connoiseur magazine, prompting the New York Times to list Lithuania as one of the 42 places to visit in 2013 on the strength of the village beers

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Nors šventė buvo sukrikščioninta, senieji papročiai liko tie patys. Kai kuriuos jų, negalėdama išginti, Bažnyčia įtraukė į savo apeigas. Išlikę senieji elementai – vandens, ugnies, augmenijos simbolika, tokie papročiai, kaip vainikų pynimas, meilės bei vestuvių burtai, žoliavimas ir kupoliavimas, paparčio žiedo ieškojimas, laužų kūrenimas, šokinėjimas per ugnį ir pan. (išsamiau žr. Rasos). Sukrikščionintose apeigose vietoj karčių – kupolių žolynais puošiami kryžiai, per pamaldas šventinamos vaistažolės, užuot deginus gyvulines aukas, naudojami gyvulių atvaizdai, statulėlės.

Yra paprotys per Jonines spėti orą. Esą, jei Joninių naktis žvaigždėta, tai Kalėdos bus šaltos ir sniegingos. Jei Joninių naktis debesuota, tai Kalėdos bus lietingos ir vėjuotos. Jei Joninių naktis lietinga, tai Kalėdos bus sniegingos, su pūgomis. Per Jonines paprastai spręsdavo apie derlių: jei per Jonines „kubilėlis lengvai prisipildo žalnieruko (vandenuko), tai aruodėlis lengvai prisipildys grūdelio“. O „jei per Jonines saulutė greitai išdžiovina paklodėlę, tai žiemą badaus vaikai ir moteriškėlės“. Šie liaudiški spėjimai ėjo iš lūpų į lūpas šiaurinėje Žemaitijoje bei pietinės Latvijos žemėse. Mokslinių tyrimų, patvirtinančių šiuos spėjimus, nebuvo atlikta, bet žemdirbiai pripažįsta, kad Joninių lietus derliui labai naudingas.

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Saint Jonas' Festival, also known as Rasos (Dew Holiday), Joninės, Kupolė, Midsummer Day or Saint John's Day) is a midsummer folk festival celebrated on June 24 all around Lithuania. While midsummer day is celebrated throughout Europe, many Lithuanians have a particularly lively agenda on this day. The traditions include singing songs and dancing until the sun sets, telling tales, searching to find the magic fern blossom at midnight, jumping over bonfires, greeting the rising midsummer sun and washing the face with a morning dew, young girls float flower wreaths on the water of river or lake. These are customs brought from pagan culture and beliefs.
Once upon a time the Balts, the ancestors of the Lithuanians, celebrated the feast of Rasos by offering sacrifices to the pagan gods, and priestesses incited the altar fire. Only when Christianity came to Lithuania, this festival was identified with St. John name-day and since then was called Joninės (St. John's). Lithuanians with the names Jonas, Jonė, Janina receive many greetings from their family, relatives and friends.

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Vakaruose ji minima nuo VI-VII a. Lietuvoje liaudiškas šios šventės pavadinimas – Žolinė, kadangi per iškilmingas šventės Mišias šventinami žolynai. Žolinės atlaidai vyksta Kabeliuose (Varėnos raj.), Krekenavoje (Panevėžio raj.), Raseiniuose, Pivašiūnuose (Alytaus raj.), Pažaislyje (Kaunas), Rumšiškėse, Šimonyse (Kupiškio raj.), Panemunyje (Rokiškio raj.), Surdegyje (Anykščių raj.), Zarasuose, Gelgaudiškyje (Šakių raj.), Pašaltuonyje (Jurbarko raj.), Veliuonoje (Jurbarko raj.).
Pasakojama, kad apaštalai atidarę Marijos kapą, nerado jos kūno – tik gėles. 1950 m. popiežius Pijus XII, tikėjimą, kad Marija buvo paimta į Dangų su siela ir kūnu paskelbė kaip dogmą.
Senovės baltai žolinę skyrė apeigoms didžiajai Deivei gimdytojai Ladai atlikti ir jai atiduoti užaugusio ir subrendusio derliaus aukas. Iki tos dienos niekas nedrįsdavo valgyti naujojo derliaus vaisių.

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Statehood Day is an annual public holiday in Lithuania celebrated on July 6 to commemorate the coronation in 1253 of Mindaugas as the only King of Lithuania. The exact day of the event is disputable and was chosen according to the hypothesis of Edvardas Gudavičius, formulated in 1989. The day has officially been celebrated since 1991.

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Kaziuko mugė or Saint Casimir's Fair is a large annual folk arts and crafts fair in Vilnius, Lithuania, dating to the beginning of the 17th century. The fair is traditionally held in city's markets and streets on the Sunday nearest to March 4 (Feast of St. Casimir), the anniversary of Saint Casimir's death. In Lithuanian, Kaziukas is a diminutive of Casimir. Today, Saint Casimir's fair also features music, dance, theater performances; it attracts tens of thousands of visitors and many craftsmen from across Lithuania as well as from neighbouring countries such as Latvia, Russia, and Poland. In recent years, the fair has expanded into other cities in Lithuania, Belarus, Poland.
St. Casimir, son of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir IV, was canonized in 1602.] In conjunction with his feast day celebrations, merchants established a fair. In 1827, they received a privilege to hold the fair in the Cathedral Square. In 1901, after a monument to Catherine the Great was unveiled in the Cathedral Square, the fair was moved to Lukiškės Square. During the Soviet era, the fair was held in Kalvarijos Market. In 1991, it returned to the Old Town of Vilnius. It was first held in Pilies Street but has since grown to span Gediminas Avenue, traverse the Cathedral Square, and branch out into Pilies Street, B. Radvilaitės Street, passing St. Anne's Church, and the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos, and into the Tymas' Quarter on the left bank of Vilnia River near Užupis. It is estimated that as of 2013, the fair attracted 2,000 merchants and half a million visitors over three days (Friday to Sunday).

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In recent years the fair has expanded into other cities in Lithuania, including Kaunas (in Laisvės alėja and Town Hall Square), Alytus, Klaipėda. Similar festivals called Kaziuki are also held in several cities in Poland, e.g. in Lidzbark Warmiński, Olsztyn,[5] Szczecin, Gdańsk and Poznań, as well as in Hrodna, Belarus, the city where St. Casimir died. A smaller version of the fair is also held by Lithuanian communities abroad, including inside the Lithuanian World Center in Lemont, Illinois.
The arts and crafts at the fair include hand-made goods from local craftsmen, such as woven and knitted clothes, footwear, toys, utensils, pots and jugs, jewelry, souvenirs, and paintings. Traditional foodstuffs include rye bread, bubliks, honey cookies, natural honey, beer, gira, and colorfully wrapped hard candy. Crafts represented include wood carvers, blacksmiths, potters, weavers and knitters, wicker weavers.
Easter palms (Lithuanian: verbos) are one of the fair's specialties. They are made of colourful dried wild flowers and herbs (about 150 different varieties of plants are used) tied around a wooden stick. Traditionally, they were taken to churches on Palm Sunday. Verba has become a traditional symbol of spring and Easter. However, it is an endangered craft.Making verba is difficult and time-consuming process. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find flowers and herbs or special dies to color them. The buyers are wary that the dried plants would cause allergic reactions.
Another signature product at the fair is the Casimir's Heart, a heart-shaped honey cookie decorated with colored sugar patterns and figures (flowers, zigzags, birds, etc.) or popular given names. People buy them to give to their loved ones. It is customary to bring back some these cookies to those who could not attend.

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Lithuanian is the official language of Lithuania. Lithuanian, an Indo-European language, closely resembles ancient Sanskrit, and is written using the Latin alphabet. It is considered by scholars that the Lithuanian language retained, with the fewest changes, most of the elements of Proto-Indo-European language. Various dialects of Lithuanian exist, such as High Lithuanian (Aukštaitian) and Low Lithuanian (Samogitian).
During the Lithuanian press ban (1864–1904), Lithuanian was censored by the Russians, and could only be written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Literature in the Lithuanian alphabet was burned and forbidden from publication. Schools, churches, courts, and newspapers faced heavy penalties if Latin text were to be displayed during these years, with violators even exiled to Siberia

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Knygnešystė – XIX a. Lietuvos istorijos fenomenas, nukreiptas prieš carinės Rusijos vykdytą lietuviškos spaudos ir raidyno draudimo politiką, trukusią 40 metų, pasireiškęs lietuviškų leidinių spausdinimu užsienyje, daugiausiai tuometinėje Prūsijoje, Mažojoje Lietuvoje bei Amerikoje, nelegaliu gabenimu per sieną ir platinimu. Persekiotas rusų valdžios.
Knygnešystės muziejai yra Ustronės sodyboje bei Bistrampolio knygnešių koplyčioje (Panevėžio rajonas).
2004 m. UNESCO knygnešystę įvertino kaip unikalią ir pasaulyje neturinčią atitikmenų.
Nuslopinus 1863–1864 m. sukilimą Lietuvoje, 1865 m. rugsėjo 23 d. Rusijos vidaus reikalų ministras Piotras Valujevas, tęsdamas represijas, išleido aplinkraštį Nr. 141, draudžiantį spausdinti lotyniškomis raidėmis, lietuvių ir žemaičių tarmėmis. Taip buvo įformintas spaudos draudimas.
Pasipriešinimą spaudos draudimui iš pradžių organizavo katalikų bažnyčios atstovai. Vyskupas Motiejus Valančius įkūrė pirmąją žinomą lietuviškų knygų platinimo, knygnešių organizaciją.

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Knygnešystė atsirado kaip pasipriešinimas caro valdžios veiklai, nukreiptai prieš Lietuvos katalikų bažnyčią, uždraudus lietuviškas maldaknyges ir diegiant provoslavybę. Vyskupas Motiejus Valančius per Aukštaitijos šviesuolį Jurgį Bielinį 1866–1867 m. persiuntė kunigui Jonui Zabermanui pinigų į Mažąją Lietuvą spaustuvės atidarymui, o netrukus ir 9 brošiūrų tekstus, raginančius kovoti prieš rusinimo politiką. Vėliau atsirado kiti spaudos platinimo centrai. Svarbiausi jų – Sudarge su kun. Martynu Sederevičiumi, Šilo Pavėžupio dvare su Vladu Putvinskiu, Povilu Višinskiu ir Morta Zauniūte, Seinų kunigų seminarijoje, Kauno kunigų seminarijoje, Kretingos vienuolyne. Vilniuje kun. Juozapas Ambraziejus-Ambrozevičius, inž. Jonas Bortkevičius, dr. Andrius Domaševičius, Jonas Jasmantas, Donatas Malinauskas, Povilas Matulionis, Elijošius Nonevičius, Liepšinskis, kun. Valentinas Urbanavičius, broliai Antanas, Jonas ir Petras Vileišiai apsijungė į organizaciją Dvylika Vilniaus apaštalų, kuri siekė iš lenkų valdomos kurijos susigrąžinti bent vieną bažnyčią lietuviams. 1901 m. organizacija savo tikslą pasiekė – lietuviai atgavo Šv. Mikalojaus bažnyčią.

Žemaitijoje spaudą aktyviai platino kun. Marcijonas Povilas Jurgaitis, Dominykas Vičas, Suvalkų krašte – Petras Mikolainis-Noveskis, Juozas Kancleris (sumuštas žandarų buvo išprotėjęs), Vilniaus krašte – kun. Silvestras Gimžauskas, Rytų Lietuvoje – Stanislovas Didžiulis, Rygoje – policininkas Juozas Miliauskas-Miglovara. Vėliau susikūrė veiklios knygnešystės organizacijos – Garšvių, „Sietynas“, „Atgaja“, „Teisybė“, „Prievarta“, „Aušrinė“, „Atžala“, „Lizdas“, „Akstinas“, „Spindulys“, „Svirplys“, „Žiburėlis“, „Žvaigždė“, Mintaujos gimnazistų – „Kūdikis“. Lietuviški leidiniai spausdinti tuometinėje Vokietijos teritorijoje – Tilžėje, Ragainėje, Vydūno kaimynystėje Bitėnuose, Priekulėje, Klaipėdoje. Knygnešystė glaudžiai susijusi ir su taip vadintomis daraktorių mokyklomis.

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Ilgainiui Lietuvoje neliko nei vieno miestelio ar bažnytkaimio, kur nebūtų galima įsigyti lietuviškos spaudos. Ištisą platintojų armiją sudarė zakristijonai, škaplierininkai, pamaldžios moterėlės ir save pašventusios vienuolystei. Apie veiklos mastą kalba skaičiai: 1900–1902 m. caro valdžiai pavyko konfiskuoti net 56 tūkst. spaudinių.
Knygnešiai, sulaikyti prie tuometinės Vokietijos – Rusijos sienos, caro žandarų buvo mušami, kankinami, o pastebėti ir nesustoję – šaudomi vietoje. Sugautus ir nuteistus knygnešius dažniausiai tremdavo į Sibirą, kartais – į Mogiliovo, Smolensko sritis, sodindavo į kalėjimą nuo 1 iki 5 metų laikotarpiui.
Šis kultūrinis sąjūdis, kurio dalyviai daugiausia buvo valstiečiai, ir kuris laikomas lietuvių tautinio sąjūdžio dalimi, padėjo pamatus Lietuvos nepriklausomybės atkūrimui 1918 m. ir išliko svarbiu tautinės savimonės išsaugojimui ligi šių dienų. Daugelio knygnešių atsiminimai ir istorijos buvo išleistos 1926 m. knygoje „Knygnešys“. Jurgis Bielinis, knygnešys, sukūręs lietuviškos spaudos nelegalaus platinimo tinklą, gimė 1846 m. kovo 16 d. Ši diena kalendoriuose minima kaip Knygnešio diena.

Russia FTW

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The first written occurrence of Lithuania's name has been traced to the Quedlinburg Annals and dated to 9 March 1009.The passage reads:
“Sanctus Bruno qui cognominatur Bonifacius archepiscopus et monachus XI. suæ conuersionis anno in confinio Rusciæ et Lituæ a paganis capite plexus cum suis XVIII, VII. Id. Martij petijt coelos.
"[In 1009] St. Bruno, an archbishop and monk, who was called Boniface, was slain by Pagans during the 11th year of this conversion at the Rus and Lithuanian border, and along with 18 of his followers, entered heaven on March 9th."
”From other sources that describe Bruno of Querfurt, it is clear that this missionary attempted to Christianize the pagan king Netimer and his subjects.[13] However, Netimer's brother, refusing to accept Christianity, killed Bruno and his followers. The historian Alfredas Bumblauskas has suggested that the story records the first baptismal attempt in the history of Lithuania.

liking this new Lithuanian phase

getting a haircut soon what should i get

Could you post the entire Lithuania wikipedia article next?

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The fact that the Polish national poem begins with the words "O Lithuania" largely stems from the fact that the 19th-century concept of nationality had not yet been geopoliticized in his time.[citation needed] The term "Lithuania" used by Mickiewicz refers rather to a geographical region and not country. It had a much broader geographic extent than it does now (i.e. the modern Lithuania), and it did refer to the historical Lithuania proper. He is often regarded by Lithuanians to be of Lithuanian origin, while Belarusians proclaim Mickiewicz to be one of them, since he was born on the territory of contemporary Belarus.
All works of Mickiewicz including Pan Tadeusz are in the Polish language. He had been brought up in the culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a multicultural state that had encompassed most of what today are the separate countries of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Numerous quotations from Pan Tadeusz are well known in translation, above all its opening lines:
Lithuania, my fatherland! You are like health;
How much you must be valued, will only discover
The one who has lost you.

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The Christianization of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos krikštas) occurred in 1387, initiated by King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło and his cousin Vytautas. It signified the official adoption of Christianity by Lithuanians, the last pagan nation in Europe. This event ended one of the most complicated and lengthiest processes of Christianization in European history.
Ethnic Lithuanian nobles were the main converts to Catholicism, but paganism remained strong among the peasantry. Pagan customs prevailed for a long time among the common people of Lithuania and were covertly practiced. There had been no prosecution of priests and adherents of the old faith. However, by the 17th century, following the Counter-Reformation (1545-1648), the Roman Catholic faith had essentially taken precedence over earlier pagan beliefs.

The conversion and its political implications had lasting repercussions for the history of Lithuania. As the majority of the population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania outside Lithuania proper was Orthodox and the elite gradually converted to Roman Catholicism, religious tensions increased. Some of the Orthodox Gediminids left Lithuania for Muscovy, where they gave rise to such families as the Galitzine and the Troubetzkoy. The Orthodox population of present-day Ukraine and eastern Belarus often sympathized with the rulers of Muscovy, who portrayed themselves as the champions of Orthodoxy. These feelings contributed to such reverses as the Battle of Vedrosha, which crippled the Grand Duchy and undermined its position as a dominant power in Eastern Europe.
On the other hand, the conversion to Roman Catholicism facilitated Lithuania's integration into the cultural sphere of Western Europe and paved the way to the political alliance of Lithuania and Poland, finalized as the Union of Lublin in 1569.

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Posts about Lithuanian culture number #21
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. The local population resisted Teutonic rule and asked Vytautas to protect them. The first uprising was unsuccessful and Vytautas had to reconfirm his previous promises to transfer Samogitia in the Peace of Raciąż. The second uprising provoked the Knights to declare war on Poland. Hostilities escalated and resulted in the Battle of Grunwald (1410), one of the biggest battles of medieval Europe. The Knights were soundly defeated by the joint Polish–Lithuanian forces, but Vytautas and Jogaila, King of Poland, were unable to capitalize on their victory. Conflicts regarding Samogitia, both diplomatic and military, dragged until the Treaty of Melno (1422).

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #22
The Livonian Order was the first to attempt the conquest of Samogitia, but they were decisively defeated by the Samogitians in the Battle of Saule in 1236 and had to become a branch of the Teutonic Order. Continued crusade brought little territorial gains. Samogitia was important to the Knights as it physically separated the Teutonic Knights in Prussia from its branch in Livonia. The first opportunity to acquire Samogitia came only in 1383 when Jogaila formulated the Treaty of Dubysa.The treaty awarded Samogitia up to the Dubysa River to the Knights for their support to Jogaila against Vytautas in the Lithuanian Civil War (1381–84). However, it was not ratified and hostilities between Poland and the Knights broke out soon after. The Knights switched sides and now Vytautas granted Samogitia to the Knights twice – by the Treaty of Königsberg (1384) and Treaty of Lyck (1390). When Jogaila and Vytautas reconciled and broke those treaties, the Knights continued to wage a war against Samogitia and Lithuania. Eventually Vytautas agreed to the Treaty of Salynas, signed in October 1398, as he sought to stabilize the western front while preparing for a large expedition into east against the Golden Horde, resulting in the disastrous Battle of the Vorskla River.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #23
According to the Treaty of Salynas, Samogitia was ceded to the Order and Vytautas agreed to help enforce the treaty. The Order attempted to take control of Samogitia: even if they had the legal title to the land, local population resisted Teutonic rule and had to be subdued. The Knights took 500 hostagesinto Prussia to discourage resistance, while loyal Samogitian nobles were rewarded with gifts (wool, salt, clothes). They also built two fortresses on the periphery of Samogitia– one with Vytautas's help near Nevėžis River and another (named Friedeburg) near the Dubysa River. Vytautas agreed to build the castle as compensation for two Teutonic fortresses he burnt during the Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92).The Knights continued to organize destructive raids. In February 1399, Teutonic and Livonian forces raided central Samogitia and locals were unable to mount effective defense. In winter 1400, Vytautas assisted the Knights in one of such raids: Samogitians, asked for his help and wanted to surrender to him, but he refused and continued to follow the treaty with the Knights.[Unable to resist and with no help coming from Vytautas, Samogitians surrendered to the Knights for the first time. In the summer of 1400, the Teutonic Grandmaster sent Heinrich von Schwelborn to govern Samogitia from castles in Kaunas and Friedeburgh.
The Knights tried to maintain friendly relationship with Vytautas: they warmly welcomed his wife Anna during her pilgrimage to the tomb of Dorothy of Montau and sent him gifts.However, soon disagreements arose when the Order demanded to return about 4,000 peasants who escaped into Lithuania. Vytautas argued that they were free people and had the right to choose where to live.The disagreement was not resolved via diplomatic means and grew into a war.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #24
The Battle of the Vorskla River was a great battle in the medieval history of Eastern Europe. It was fought on August 12, 1399, between the Tatars, under Edigu and Temur Qutlugh, and the armies of Tokhtamysh and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania. The battle ended in a decisive Tatar victory.
In late 1380s the relationship between Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde, and his former master, Timur, was growing tense. In 1395, after losing the Tokhtamysh–Timur war, Tokhtamysh was dethroned by the party of Khan Temur Qutlugh and Emir Edigu, supported by Timur. Tokhtamysh escaped to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and asked Vytautas for assistance in retaking the Horde in exchange for surrendering his suzerainty over Ruthenian lands. This development was in harmony with Vytautas' ambitions to become ruler of all Ruthenian lands.A surviving iarlyk shows that Tokhtamysh had asked for Polish–Lithuanian assistance previously in 1393.
Vytautas gathered a large army which included Lithuanians, Ruthenians, Poles, Moldavians, and Wallachians. To enlist support from the Teutonic Knights, Vytautas signed the Treaty of Salynas, surrendering Samogitia to the Knights. Vytautas's son-in-law, Vasily I of Moscow, formally a Tatar vassal, did not join the coalition. The joint forces organized three expeditions into Tatar territories, in 1397, 1398, and 1399. The first expedition reached the Black Sea and Crimea. Vytautas took several thousand captives without much opposition. Half of these captives were settled near Trakai and awarded privileges to practice their faith. Communities of their descendants, Lipka Tatars and Crimean Karaites (Karaims), survive to this day.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #25
In 1398, the army of Vytautas moved from the Dnieper River and attacked northern Crimea, reaching as far east as the River Don. In order to strengthen his position, Vytautas built a castle at the mouth of Dnieper. Inspired by their successes, Vytautas declared a "Crusade against the Tatars" and in May 1399 received blessing from Pope Boniface IX. The papal blessing for the crusade was an important political achievement for Lithuania, a country converted to Christianity only in 1387 and the subject of a hundred-year crusade. The campaign was organized from Kiev. In 1399, the army of Vytautas once again moved against the Horde along the Dnieper River. On August 5, his army met the Tatars at the Vorskla River just north of Poltava (almost same location as the Battle of Poltava of 1709).
Once the two armies met, Temur Qutlugh proposed a three-day ceasefire to allow both sides to prepare their forces. It was a trick to win time while Edigu's reinforcements arrived. Vytautas planned to build a great wagon-fort, to stop charging horsemen, and then to destroy them with cannons and artillery. Vytautas' army was well equipped, but smaller in number.However, Temur Qutlugh feigned a retreat (a tried and tested Tatar tactic) and Vytautas left his wagon fort to pursue him. Once Lithuanian forces were suitably far away from the wagon fort, the units of Edigu appeared from behind and surrounded the Lithuanian army. At this point Tokhtamysh decided the battle was lost and fled the battle with his men. The Tartars then used their own artillery to destroy the Lithuanian cavalry whilst simultaneously capturing the Lithuanians' wagon fort.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #26
Aftermath of the Battle of the Vorskla River
Vytautas barely escaped alive, but many princes of his kin (including his cousins Demetrius I Starszy and Andrei of Polotsk) and allies (as for example, Stephen I of Moldavia and two of his brothers) died in the battle. It is estimated that some 50 princes fought under Vytautas' banners and about 20 of them were killed. The victorious Tatars besieged Kiev, but it paid a ransom.The Tatars pillaged as far west as Lutsk, in pursuit of Tokhtamysh, who spent the next seven or eight years in hiding and was assassinated in 1407 or 1408.
Vytautas' defeat at the Vorskla effectively blocked Lithuanian expansion to southern Ruthenia. His state also lost access to the Black Sea as the Tatars reconquered the southern steppe all the way to the borders of Moldavia; lands that was reclaimed by the Golden Horde until the Crimean Khanate broke away from its rule some forty-two years later. After the battle, Yury of Smolensk revolted against Lithuania and Smolensk was not recaptured for five years. Veliky Novgorod and Pskov also rebelled against Lithuanian rule drawing Vytautas into a war with the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
Vytautas was forced to abandon his plans to break the Union of Kreva and to ally himself once again with his cousin and King of Poland Jogaila. The Polish–Lithuanian union was reaffirmed in the Union of Vilnius and Radom. Vytautas also turned his plans from expansion southwards to east (against Moscow) and west (against the Teutonic Knights). It is suggested that Vytautas learned the staged retreat tactic during the battle and successfully used it himself in the Battle of Grunwald (1410), an important defeat of the Teutonic Knights.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #27
The Battle of Blue Waters (Lithuanian: Mūšis prie Mėlynųjų Vandenų, Belarusian: Бiтвa нa Ciнiх Boдaх, Ukrainian: Битвa нa Cинiх Boдaх) was a battle fought at some time in autumn 1362 or 1363 on the shores of the Synjucha River, left tributary of the Southern Bug, between the armies of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Golden Horde. The Lithuanians won a decisive victory and finalized their conquest of the Principality of Kiev.
After the death of its ruler Berdi Beg Khan in 1359 the Golden Horde experienced a series of succession disputes and wars that lasted two decades (1359–81). The Horde began fracturing into separate districts (ulus). Taking advantage of internal disorder within the Horde, Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania organized a campaign into Tatar lands. He aimed to secure and expand southern territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, particularly the Principality of Kiev. Kiev had already come under semi-Lithuanian control after the Battle on the Irpin River in early 1320s, but still paid tribute to the Horde.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #28
In 1362 or 1363, Algirdas marched between lower Dnieper and Southern Bug First, Algirdas captured remaining territories of the Principality of Chernigov – the bulk of the territory, including the capital in Bryansk, fell under Lithuanian control around 1357–1358. The Lithuanians then attacked Korshev (Кopшoв), an unidentified fortress located in the upper reaches of the Bystraya Sosna River, tributary of the Don River. It is believed that Algirdas further conquered territories of the former Principality of Pereslavl. The area belonged to Crimean ulus which was engaged in a campaign against New Sarai and could not organize effective resistance. In autumn, the Lithuanian army crossed the Don River into Podolia. Three Tatar beys of Podolia gathered an army to resist the invasion. It is believed that the armies met at present-day Torhovytsia (Ukrainian: Topгoвицi). At the time the town was known as Yabgu in Turkic, or viceroy, regent town, and Sinie Vody in Russian, or Blue Waters.
A short description of the battle survives only from late and not very reliable work of Maciej Stryjkowski, published in 1582. According to Stryjkowski, Algirdas organized his army into six groups and arranged them in a half circle. The Tatars started the battle by hurling arrows into the sides of the Lithuanian formation. Such attacks had little effect and the Lithuanians and Ruthenians, armed with spears and swords, moved forward and broke the front lines of the Tatar army. Sons of Karijotas with units from Navahrudak attacked Tatar flanks with crossbows. The Tatars could not maintain their formation and broke into a disorganized retreat. Algirdas achieved a decisive victory.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #29
The victory brought the city of Kiev and a large part of present-day Ukraine, including sparsely populated Podolia and Dykra, under the control of the expanding Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The duchy also gained access to the Black Sea. Algirdas left his son Vladimir in Kiev. After taking Kiev, Lithuania became a direct neighbor and rival of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.Podolia was trusted to Aleksander, Yuri, Konstantin, and Fedir – sons of Karijotas, nephews of Algirdas, and commanders during the battle.

Posts about Lithuanian culture number #30
The Lithuanian Civil War of 1432–1438 was a conflict over the succession to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after Vytautas the Great died in 1430 without leaving an heir. The war was fought on the one side by Švitrigaila, allied with the Teutonic Knights, and on the other by Sigismund Kęstutaitis, backed by the Kingdom of Poland. The war threatened to sever the Union of Krewo, the personal union between Poland and Lithuania. Švitrigaila's alliance with the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Paul von Rusdorf, launched the Polish–Teutonic War (1431–1435) but failed to secure victory for Švitrigaila.
When Sigismund captured power in Lithuania by staging a coup in 1432, Lithuania split into two opposing camps, and there began three years of devastating hostilities. To prevent the Knights from continuing their support of Švitrigaila, Poland backed a Hussite invasion of Prussia in 1433.The war ended in a decisive defeat for Švitrigaila and his ally, the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights, at the Battle of Pabaiskas in September 1435. Švitrigaila eventually surrendered in 1437; Sigismund Kęstutaitis ruled Lithuania for only eight years before he was assassinated in 1440.

Posts not so about Lithuanian culture number #1
Going to buy a chair.

Ahh yes very cultural posts

Why do you need a new chair? did the old one broke?

ching chong ping pong to you too

rude

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Kinda gay.

Woah they read my mind

This is the official thread, it just needs some people.

kek

I have arrived, but I am yawning.

Well then go to sleep(sleep is for the weak tho)

youtube.com/watch?v=m6MOaECL6FM&t=6s

>did the old one broke?
yes pretty much

The new chair is made in Ukraine btw

you bought it already?

there is furniture store on every corner here so yes

oh I see. How much did you paid?

85 euros which doesn't sound a lot but its a very nice chair, like the ones that big corporation owners from the movies use, also its made in Ukraine so it was probably made by child slaves so that's another reason for it being so cheap

so I guess something like this right, I had similar one in the past.
>also its made in Ukraine so it was probably made by child slaves so that's another reason for it being so cheap
lel

Yes very similar to that one

now you can act as a villain

there is no need to act as one when I already I am a villain

Well ok then I will correct myself
now you can be a full-fledge villain with a chair like that

Indeed. thank you psycho guy

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug how can you telllllllll

I was trying to stay low-profile

CAUSE I FEEL

youtube.com/watch?v=HJ0onJKSITA

impossible, you shouldn't feel my presence through the net

Why else would anyone would be posting here desu
They should create a L.A Noire like game but in cyber punk future desu

now this is comfy

>Why else would anyone would be posting here desu
true, now as I know this you will not gonna recognize me in teh future heh
>666
like a true villain
hmm never played L.A Noire is it good?

I will recognize you lol
>like a true villain
yes!
>hmm never played L.A Noire is it good?
Yes I really liked it, it was really fun solving cases though the ending was pretty disappointing

nope you are not gonna regognize me again EVUR, I will be stealthy as a nippon ninja

I see
have you bought mechanical keyboard?

>I see
Don't think that she does lol
lol okay I will have to wait and see if I can't tell you apart next time
>have you bought mechanical keyboard?
Not yet, because I couldn't decide which one to buy, I was thinking about Corsair STRAFE Cherry MX Red or Noppoo Choc Mini but ultimately I couldn't decide

>Don't think that she does lol
it is not about seeing it is about feeling, she can feel it heh
>lol okay I will have to wait and see if I can't tell you apart next time
you never know when I might showed up tho, might be 2 days from now, might be a week or maybe less, only I know(I don't)

hmm I see, yeah it is pretty hard to pick a new keyboard, I just bought some basically no-name chinese one for 30-40 jewros(don't remember correctly), but it works without any problems

other thread is pretty gay

>it is not about seeing it is about feeling, she can feel it heh
Hmm yes, I guess that's good enough.
>you never know when I might showed up tho, might be 2 days from now, might be a week or maybe less, only I know(I don't)
lol okay I'll be ready to expose you when ever you try it again
>hmm I see, yeah it is pretty hard to pick a new keyboard, I just bought some basically no-name chinese one for 30-40 jewros(don't remember correctly), but it works without any problems
Oh nice, did you buy it from aliexpress?

>lol okay I'll be ready to expose you when ever you try it again
you might accidentally accuse other people instead of me, because I'm gonna be so stealthy nobody gonna even notice me heh
>Oh nice, did you buy it from aliexpress?
nope ebay

don't think so, you're gonna be very easy to find I AM JUST THAT GOOD,

we will see about that, I can blend it really easily
btw where is your russian buddy?

Summoning the gay ERPers

wrong bread

Okay good luck
>btw where is your russian buddy?
desuarchive.org/int/thread/78789113/#q78789113

I will shit this thread up
You are powerless to stop me

doesn't seem to be working
anyways he got banned

I have a lot of power(autism) I'm one of the most powerful creatures alive
I see, why did he get banned? for lewd posts?

He got banned because he posted an anime girl with her throat being cut open

oh I see, well yeah not only lewd posts are NSFW

yes indeed
going to watch anime now desu

ok, have fun

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obvious proxy is obvious
stop pretending to be australian you shitcunt

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oi mate shut your facking trap or I'm gonna smash your head ay
cunt

huh fucking sissy ciggy butt brain ran away
what a cunt