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Located in the center of the other Baltic populations – Borussi, Jatvingi, Latvians – the Lithuanians enjoyed, thanks to their greater isolation, relative tranquility until the beginning of the century. XIII when the Teutonic Knights Porta-Croce and Porta-Spada began to attack them under the pretext of converting them to Christianity. The Teutonic threat induced the… Read More »

Relief Lithuanian territory is flat, more rugged than that of the other two Baltic republics (Estonia and Latvia) and occupies a sector of the Baltorusian plain, designed in part by glacial erosion. Towards the East and South of the country, the monotony of the relief is interrupted by the presence of several hills that do… Read More »