Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was supp
Lithuania's name in writing, 1009
Columns of Gediminas
Gediminas' Tower and other remnants of the Upper Castle in Vilnius
Lubart's Castle in Ukraine, built by the son of Gediminas' Liubartas in the mid-14th century, is famous for the Congress of Lutsk which took place in 1429
Gediminas's Cap
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Gediminas's Cap was the most important regalia of the Lithuanian monarchs who ruled the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Union of Lublin in 1569. During the inaugurations of Lithuanian monarchs, Ged
Coat of arms of Lithuania crowned with Gediminas's Cap, painted c. 1555
Vytautas' majestic seal of 1407, the first iconographic representation of Gediminas's Cap
Vilnius Cathedral, built in 1407, served as a venue for the ceremonies of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.
First page of the Latin copy of Laurentius (1531) of the First Statute of Lithuania