• The Lithuanian minority in Poland consists of 8,000 people (according to the Polish census of 2011) living chiefly in the Podlaskie Voivodeship (mainly...
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    Poles in Lithuania (Polish: Polacy na Litwie, Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkai), also called Lithuanian Poles, estimated at 183,000 people in the Lithuanian census...
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    visible Polish–Lithuanian border Map of Poland and Lithuania around 1370–1382, with visible Polish–Lithuanian border Map of Poland and Lithuania around 1386–1434...
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    Lithuania (/ˌlɪθjuˈeɪnijə/ LITH-yoo-AYN-ee-yə; Lithuanian: Lietuva [lʲiətʊˈvɐ]), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika...
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  • Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569, Lithuanians and Ruthenians became part of the population. A 1493 estimate listed the combined population of Poland and...
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    The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, or simply PolandLithuania, was a bi-confederal...
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  • of Lithuania has made provision for ethnic minorities since 1918. A substantial Jewish group that existed up to World War II was almost eliminated in the...
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    Suwałki Region (category LithuaniaPoland relations)
    ; Lithuanian: Suvalkų kraštas, Suvalkija) is a historical region around the city of Suwałki in northeastern Poland near the border with Lithuania. It...
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  • The Russian minority in Poland consists of 13,000 people (according to the Polish census of 2011, page 92). In the past – the times of the Second Polish...
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  • The Belarusian minority in Poland (Belarusian: Беларусы ў Польшчы, romanized: Biełarusy w Polščy; Polish: Białorusini w Polsce) is composed of 47,000 people...
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  • Kashubian (5) Lithuanian (1) German (33) Belarusian (5) A settlement can use any officially recognised, regional, or minority languages in their name. Currently[when...
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    The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the...
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    Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – Christian Families Alliance or EAPL–CFA (Lithuanian: Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija – Krikščioniškų šeimų sąjunga...
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    Partitions of Poland, there was no Polish-Lithuanian border, as both countries were a part of a single federated entity, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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    of Lithuanian ethnic tribes ('susilieti, lietis' means to unite and the word 'lietuva' means something which has been united). The primary Lithuanian state...
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    in Poland began in the 14th century. From this time it was primarily associated with the Lipka Tatars, many of whom settled in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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    (Lithuanian: [jɔˈɡâːɪɫɐ] ; c. 1352/1362 – 1 June 1434), later Władysław II Jagiełło (Polish: [vwaˈdɨswaf jaˈɡʲɛwwɔ] ), was Grand Duke of Lithuania (1377–1381...
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    "Lithuanian": the noun for a Lithuanian Jew is Litvak. The term Litvak itself originates from Litwak, a Polish term denoting "a man from Lithuania",...
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  • histories in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth LithuaniaPoland relations (since 1918) Polish minority in Lithuania Lithuanian minority in Poland This disambiguation...
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    into Poland on 18 April 1922. The region centered around Vilnius, the historical capital of Lithuania, had majority-Polish population with Lithuanian population...
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    Polish–Lithuanian War (in Polish historiography, Polish–Lithuanian Conflict) was an undeclared war between newly independent Lithuania and Poland following...
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    Gmina Puńsk (category Bilingual communes in Poland)
    district, with about 73.4% of the population belonging to the Lithuanian minority in Poland (the 2011 Census). Gmina Puńsk contains the villages and settlements...
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  • History of Vilnius (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
    Central Lithuanian representatives to the talks. Simultaneously, the Lithuanian politicians argued that Central Lithuania was but a puppet state of Poland and...
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    also Czechs, Lithuanians, Jews, and other minority groups. These annexed territories were subsequently incorporated into the Lithuanian, Byelorussian...
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    the Polish–Lithuanian state, which persisted until 1795 when the last of the Partitions of Poland erased both independent Lithuania and Poland from the...
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  • Unity, Russian: Единство, Lithuanian: Vienybė, Polish: Jedność) was a pro-soviet and anti-Sąjūdis movement in the Lithuanian SSR during the Perestroika...
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    Polonization (category LithuaniaPoland relations)
    Piłsudski's death in 1935, the Lithuanian minority in Poland again became an object of Polonization policies with greater intensity. 266 Lithuanian schools were...
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    (Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund...
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  • to live in the post-Soviet states, most notably in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine, the areas historically associated with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...
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  • nations). Around 1490, the combined population of Poland and Lithuania, in a personal union (the Polish–Lithuanian union) since the Union of Krewo a century before...
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