Tag: Lithuania

Lithuania – the largest country in the Baltic States With an area of 65,301 km² – with around 3.35 million residents, Lithuania is the largest country of the three Baltic states and has been a member of the European Union since May 1, 2004. The country was involuntarily part of the USSR until 1991 after […]

Attractions Purnuskes, Trakai, Kaunas and Grutas Very close to Vilnius is Purnuskes, the geographic center of Europe. Trakai, the former capital of Lithuania, is located about 25 km from Vilnius on the shore of Lake Galve, which is ideal for boat trips. Pretty wooden houses and a castle from the 14th century characterize the old […]

The writers of the older generation continued to deal with the themes of the national tradition; the young people were instead concerned with making contact with world literature and getting out of the narrow limits in which they had been forced to operate until then. Two decades of independent life served to orient Lithuanian literature […]

Lithuania is a state in Europe and the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Lithuania is bounded in the southeast and east by Belarus and in the north by Latvia. Poland is located in the south of Lithuania. Although the border length is only about 100 kilometers, it is the most important connection between Lithuania […]