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The Lithuanians Voice - TALK - Medieval Lithuania 20121227

A little about Medieval Lithuania!
This is to correct or expand on comments made on several
of my videos

Lithuania was first mentioned in 1009, formed a state ca. 1183,
and developed into a powerful empire in the 14th century.
It survived and gained power in the constant fight with the
Teutonic Knights, supported by almost the whole of Catholic Europe,
the Tartar hordes and Muscovite Russia.

In 1386, Polish nobles had elected a pagan ruler of Lithuania
-- Jogaila (Jagiello), King of Poland, who was christened then.
He converted Lithuania to Christianity one year later.

This laid the foundation for the future
Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.
Jogaila's successors went on to successfully expand
their
political influence all throughout the 15th Century.

At the end of the Middle Ages almost the whole of
Central Europe was ruled by the dynasty of Lithuanian origin
-- the Jagiellonians.

The lands of the three Jagiellonian brothers
(Wladislas, the King of Bohemia and Hungary;
John Albert, the King of Poland;
Alexander, the Grand Duke of Lithuania)
formed a Jagiellonian political system,
which existed from 1492 to 1526.
QUOTE:
Quote by S. C. Rowell, Baltic Europe,

The heart of 'Baltic Europe' is formed by the lands of
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
(with the kingdom of Poland) and
he Teutonic Order.
The Danish dominium maris baltici
which characterised the thirteenth century
slowly gave way to the German-dominated
Hanse and Lithuanian-Polish joint monarchy
in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
To use a Mediterranean methaphor,
the Scandinavian peninsula played Carthage
to the southern Baltic Rome.

SOURCE Medieval Lithuania by Tomas Baranauskas