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Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania, the fourth-largest city in the Baltic states, and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city a
Kauno senamiestis by Augustas Didzgalvis
Kaunas Castle in 2023
House of Perkūnas, Kaunas, Lithuania Diliff
Kauno rotuse 2006 06 11
Lithuania
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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
Kaunas
…Kaunas (; Lithuanian: ) is the second-largest city in Lithuania (after Vilnius), the fourth-largest city in the Baltic states, and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was…
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.