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Apr 5, 2024 · grand duchy of Lithuania, state, incorporating Lithuania proper, Belarus, and western Ukraine, which became one of the most influential powers in eastern Europe (14th–16th century).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
lithuania, grand duchy of, to 1569. The dates 1385 and 1569 mark important turning points in Polish historiography concerning the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a governing myth of which is that of state creation by marriages and free unions.
This article explores the geography of the pledges from the grand-ducal demesne of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 1500s – mid-1520s and discusses the most important pledges. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, most of the grand-ducal demesne was within the borders of Troki and Vilnius palatinates – the most important economic ...
Lithuanians forged a long-lasting alliance with Poland that eventually extinguished the Teutonic threat. Ruled by Grand Duke Vytautas Lithuania became the largest state in Europe, stretching from Baltic to the Black sea in the 15th century. Battle of Žalgiris (Grunewald) by Jan Matejko.
Mar 28, 2008 · The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1370–1506; By Aleksander Gieysztor; Edited by Christopher Allmand, University of Liverpool; Book: The New Cambridge Medieval History; Online publication: 28 March 2008; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521382960.036
- Aleksander Gieysztor
- 1998
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th [1] –13th century until 1569. In 1569 it became a part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791. It was started by the Lithuanians. [2] [3] [4] The duchy grew to include large parts of the former Kievan Rus' and other Slavic lands.
Kernavė, the heartland of Lithuania in the 11th–13th century. The Duchy of Lithuania ( Latin: Ducatus Lithuaniae; Lithuanian: Lietuvos kunigaikštystė) was a state-territorial formation of ethnic Lithuanians that existed from the 13th century [1] to 1413. For most of its existence, it was a constituent part and a nucleus of the Grand Duchy ...
