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LITHUANIAN ANTHEM = Tautiška giesmė
LITHUANIAN ANTHEM = Tautiška giesmė
LYRICS
LYRICS
Lithuanian original[20][21][22]
Official English translation[3]
Lietuva, Tėvyne mūsų,
Tu didvyrių žeme,
Iš praeities Tavo sūnūs
Te stiprybę semia.
Tegul Tavo vaikai eina
Vien takais dorybės,
Tegul dirba Tavo naudai
Ir žmonių gėrybei.
Tegul saulė Lietuvoj[c]
Tamsumas prašalina,[d]
Ir šviesa, ir tiesa
Mūs žingsnius telydi.
Tegul meilė Lietuvos
Dega mūsų širdyse,
Vardan tos, Lietuvos
Vienybė težydi!
[lʲiæ.tʊ.ˈvɐ | tʲeː.ˈvʲiː.nʲæ ˈmuː.suː |]
[tʊ dʲɪd.ˈvʲiː.rʲuː ˈʒʲæ.mʲæ |]
[ɪʃ prɐ.ɛɪ̯ˑ.ˈtʲiæs ˈtɐ.voː ˈsuː.nuːs]
[tʲæ stʲɪ.ˈprʲiː.bʲæː ˈsʲæ.mʲæ ǁ]
[tʲæː.ˈgʊɫ ˈtɐ.voː vɐɪ̯ˑ.ˈkɐɪ̯ˑ ˈɛɪ̯ˑ.nɐ]
[vʲiæn tɐ.ˈkɐɪ̯ˑz‿doː.ˈrʲiː.bʲeːs |]
[tʲæː.ˈgʊɫ ˈdʲɪr.bɐ ˈtɐ.voː ˈnɐʊ̯.dɐɪ̯ˑ]
[ɪr ʒmoː.ˈnʲuː gʲeː.ˈrʲiː.bʲɛɪ̯ˑ ǁ]
[tʲæː.ˈgʊɫ ˈsɐʊ̯.lʲeː lʲiæ.tʊ.ˈvoːj]
[ˈtɐm.sʊ.mɐs prɐ.ˈʃɐ.lʲɪ.nɐ |]
[ɪr ʃvʲiæ.ˈsɐ | ɪr tʲiæ.ˈsɐ]
[muːz‿ʒʲɪŋg.ˈsnʲʊs tʲæ.ˈlʲiː.dʲɪ ǁ]
[tʲæː.ˈgʊɫ ˈmʲæːj.lʲeː lʲiæ.tʊ.ˈvoːs]
[ˈdʲæː.gɐ ˈmuː.suː ʃʲɪr.dʲiː.ˈsʲæ |]
[vɐr.ˈdɐn toːs | lʲiæ.tʊ.ˈvoːs]
[vʲiæ.ˈnʲiː.bʲeː tʲæ.ˈʒʲiː.dʲɪ ǁ]
Lithuania, our dear homeland,
Land of worthy heroes,
May your sons draw strength and vigour
From your past experience.
May your children always proudly
Choose the paths of virtue,
May your good and gains of people
Be the goals they work for.
May the sun over this land
Scatter all the gloom and dark,
Truth and light, shining bright,
Guide our steps forever.
May our love for our native land
Keep on burning in our hearts,
For the sake of this land...
We shall stand together!
REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA
Republic of Lithuania
Lietuvos Respublika (Lithuanian)
Anthem:
"National Hymn"
Capital
and largest city
Official languages
Ethnic groups (2021[2])
84.6% Lithuanians
6.5% Poles
5.0% Russians
1.0% Belarusians
0.5% Ukrainians
2.3% Others
Religion (2021[3])
79.4% Christianity
74.2% Catholicism
5.2% Other Christian
6.1% No religion
0.8% Others
13.7% No answer
Unitary semi-presidential republic[4][5][6][7]
Legislature
9 March 1009
1236
• Coronation of Mindaugas
6 July 1253
2 February 1386
• Commonwealth created
1 July 1569
24 October 1795
16 February 1918
11 March 1990
1 May 2004
• Total
65,300 km2 (25,200 sq mi) (121st)
• Water (%)
1.98 (2015)[8]
• 2023 estimate
• Density
44/km2 (114.0/sq mi) (138th)
2023 estimate
• Total
• Per capita
GDP (nominal)
2023 estimate
• Total
• Per capita
Gini (2020)
35.1[11]
medium
HDI (2021)
0.875[12]
very high · 35th
Currency
Time zone
• Summer (DST)
Date format
yyyy-mm-dd (CE)
right
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LITHUANIA
LITHUANIA
Lithuania (/ˌlɪθjuˈeɪniə/ (listen) LITH-yoo-AYN-ee-ə;[13] Lithuanian: Lietuva [lʲɪɛtʊˈvɐ]), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika [lʲɪɛtʊˈvoːs rʲɛsˈpʊblʲɪkɐ]), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.[a] It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Russia to the southwest.[b] It has a maritime border with Sweden to the west on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania covers an area of 65,300 km2 (25,200 sq mi), with a population of 2.86 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian, one of only a few living Baltic languages.
For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July 1253. In the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe;[19] present-day Lithuania, Belarus, most of Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia were all lands of the Grand Duchy. The Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were in a de facto personal union from 1386 with the marriage of the Polish queen Hedwig and Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila, who was crowned King jure uxoris Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland. The Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania was established by the Union of Lublin in July 1569. The Commonwealth lasted more than two centuries, until neighbouring countries dismantled it in 1772–1795, with the Russian Empire annexing most of Lithuania's territory. As World War I ended, Lithuania's Act of Independence was signed on 16 February 1918, founding the modern Republic of Lithuania. In World War II, Lithuania was occupied first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany. Towards the end of the war in 1944, when the Germans were retreating, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania. Lithuanian armed resistance to the Soviet occupation lasted until the early 1950s. On 11 March 1990, a year before the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lithuania passed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, becoming the first Soviet republic to break away when it proclaimed the restoration of its independence.[20]
Lithuania is a developed country with a high income, advanced economy, and ranking 35th in the Human Development Index. Lithuania is a member of the European Union, the Council of Europe, the eurozone, the Nordic Investment Bank, the Schengen Agreement, NATO, and OECD. It also participates in the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) regional co-operation format.
COAT OF ARMS OF LITHUANIA
COAT OF ARMS OF LITHUANIA
The coat of arms of Lithuania is a mounted armoured knight holding a sword and shield, known as Vytis (pronounced ['vîːtɪs]).[1] Since the early 15th century, it has been Lithuania's official coat of arms and is one of the oldest European coats of arms.[2][3][4] It is also known by other names in various languages, such as Waykimas, Pagaunė[5][6] in the Lithuanian language or as Pogonia, Pogoń, Пагоня (romanized: Pahonia) in the Polish, and Belarusian languages.[2][7][8] Vytis is translatable as Chase, Pursuer, Knight or Horseman, similar to the Slavic vityaz (Old East Slavic for brave, valiant warrior).[9] Historically – raitas senovės karžygys (mounted epic hero of old) or in heraldry – raitas valdovas (mounted sovereign).[9][10][11]
The once powerful and vast Lithuanian state,[12] first as Duchy, then Kingdom, and finally Grand Duchy was created by the initially pagan Lithuanians, in reaction to pressures from the Teutonic Order and Swordbrothers which conquered modern-day Estonia and Latvia, forcibly converting them to Christianity.[13][14][15] The Lithuanians are the only Balts that created a state before the modern era.[16] Moreover, the pressure stimulated Lithuanians to expand their lands eastward into territory of Ruthenian Orthodox in the Dnieper's upper basin and that of the Eurasian nomads in the Eurasian Steppe between lower Dnieper and Dniester, conquering present-day Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian lands in the process.[14][17][18][19][20] This expansive Lithuania was conveyed in the coat of arms of Lithuania, the galloping horseman.[17][21] The usage of the coat of arms of Lithuania spread even further throughout the country as the Third Statute of Lithuania (adopted in 1588) required to use it on each county's seal.[22]
The ruling Gediminid dynasty first adopted the horseback knight as a dynastical symbol which depicted them. Later, in the early 15th century, Grand Duke Vytautas the Great made the mounted knight on a red field the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Ever since, the Lithuanian rulers and nobles related to the ruling dynasty used the coat of arms.[2][8] The knight's shield was designed for decoration with the Columns of Gediminas or the Jagiellonian Double Cross.[23][24] Article 15 of the Constitution of Lithuania, approved by national referendum in 1992, stipulates, "The Coat of Arms of the State shall be a white Vytis on a red field".[25]
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