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6: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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What Do We Know About Lithuania?

Lithuanians were subject to violent, forcible conversion in the era of Crusades. The Deutonic Knights had wiped out the Prussians who spoke a Baltic language similar to Lithuanian. As that was happening, the groups of Baltic speakers managed to consolidate a state. They consolidated because of what the Mongols did in the South.

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