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Lithuanian Soldiers serving in Afghanistan with a Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team during Combat Shooting live fire exercise – 19th February 2013
A metal plaque near the National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius showing the extent of the present-day Republic of Lithuania. Today, the country covers barely 65 thousand square kilometers near the Baltic Sea, with a population just shy of 3 million.
Compare this to the era of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1392-1430) when the territory stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and covered some 14 times more area!
Vilnius, Lithuania 11 October 2012.
St. Ann and Bernadine's church..
Photo: Ezequiel Scagnetti .
Copyright: European Union
Lithuanian Soldiers taking part in the final Battle of a field training exercise at the Ādaži Training Area in Latvia as part ofSaber Strike 2013 - The battle was won by international allied forces battallion where soldiers from three Baltic States, USA and UK were fighting shoulder by shoulder – 13th June 2013
Photo: Gatis Diezins, RYC
Klaipeda is Lithuania's third city, and it's only commercial port. It has a turbulent history, only becoming part of Lithuania in 1923. Previously the city was German and known as Memel. It was annexed by Hitler in March 1939, and was ruled by him until January 1945 when the city fell to the Red Army. It was the Soviet Union's only ice-free Baltic port, and was closed to Westerners until 1986.
Gryphons bearing the arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Gate of Dawn (Ausros Vartai), Vilnius, Lithuania