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Michigan. Wisconsin Territory. The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, [1] until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.
Jan 3, 2017 · But Lithuania’s control over Klaipėda lasted for only just over fifteen years – in 1939, Hitler gave an ultimatum to the Lithuanian government demanding the return of Memel, and just a few days later Nazi troops marched in to take the city. Deep Baltic’s Will Mawhood spoke to historian Vasilijus Safronovas, who has written widely on the ...
Jun 25, 2013 · The first Sunday in August 1995, St. Anthony’s Lithuanian Church and the Knights of Lithuania Council 102 celebrated their 75 year anniversary of serving God, the Lithuanian community, our neighboring community and Lithuania.
In the mid-10th century, the eastern area of Crimea was conquered by Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev and became part of the Kievan Rus' principality of Tmutarakan. The peninsula was wrested from the Byzantines by the Kievan Rus' in the 10th century; a major Byzantine outpost, Chersonesus, was taken in 988 CE.
Lithuanian and Polish rule. By the middle of the 14th century, Ukrainian territories were under the rule of three external powers—the Golden Horde, the grand duchy of Lithuania, and the kingdom of Poland. The steppe and Crimea, whose coastal towns and maritime trade were now in the hands of the Venetians and Genoese, formed part of the direct ...
Lithuanian freedom fighter officer awards a female citizen. In 1944-1953 Lithuanian forests sheltered an entire guerilla state with its own government, army, and courts of law. Some vainly hoped for Western help, for the others tough life in forest helped avoid an even quicker death in Soviet genocide.
Early history (1147–1283) The first reference to Moscow dates from 1147 as a meeting place of Sviatoslav Olgovich and Yuri Dolgorukiy. At the time it was a minor town on the western border of Vladimir-Suzdal Principality. In 1156, Kniaz Yury Dolgoruky fortified the town with a timber fence and a moat.
