Alytus County
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Alytus County is one of ten counties in Lithuania. It is the southernmost county, and its capital is the city of Alytus. Its territory lies within the south-western part of Dzūkija, one of five region
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Druskininkai flowers
Alytus, capital and largest city of the county
Our Lady of the Scapular church in Druskininkai
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Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to th
Alytus County
…Alytus County (Lithuanian: Alytaus apskritis) is one of ten counties in Lithuania. It is the southernmost county, and its capital is the city of Alytus. Its territory lies within the south-western part of Dzūkija, one of five regions…
Earliest mention of Lithuania (Litua, on line 7) in the entry for 1009 in the 11th-century Annals of Quedlinburg, Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Q.113, fol 31r.
Baltic amber was a valuable trade item, transported from the region of modern-day Lithuania to the Roman Empire through the Amber Road.
Ancient Kernavė hillforts
Trakai Island Castle, the former residence of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. Nearby Senieji Trakai was the capital of the medieval state in 1316–1323, before the Lithuanian capital was transferred to Vilnius by the Lithuanian monarch Gediminas.