Lietuva – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Lithuania
Lithuania (; ), officially the
Republic of Lithuania , is a country in
Northern Europe. One of the three
Baltic states, it is situated along the southeastern shore of the
Baltic Sea, to the east of
Sweden and
Denmark. It is bordered by
Latvia to the north,
Belarus to the east and south,
Poland to the south, and
Kaliningrad Oblast (a
Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.9 million people as of 2015, and its capital and largest city is
Vilnius.
Lithuanians are a
Baltic people. The official language,
Lithuanian, along with
Latvian, are the only two living languages in the
Baltic branch of the
Indo-European language family.
Lietuva
Noun
1. a republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea
(synonym) Lithuania, Republic of Lithuania
(hypernym) Baltic State, Baltic Republic
(member-meronym) Lithuanian
(part-meronym) Klaipeda, Memel
Lithuania
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Background
Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation until September of 1991 (following the abortive coup in Moscow). The last Russian troops withdrew in 1993. Lithuania subsequently restructured its economy for integration into Western European institutions; it joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004.
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