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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), Baltic country with capital Vilnius; independence restored 11 March 1990; EU and NATO member since 2004, eurozone and OECD member; Seimas of 141 members; defense spending 2.7% of GDP in 2025.
Lithuania men's national basketball team
Lithuania men's national basketball team (Lietuvos vyrų krepšinio rinktinė): EuroBasket champions 1937, 1939, 2003; Olympic bronze 1992, 1996, 2000; ninth in FIBA ranking; currently fighting for 2027 World Cup qualification in Group J.
Lithuania Minor
Lithuania Minor (Mažoji Lietuva, Prussian Lithuania) is a historic region in the Pregel basin and lower Nemunas, formed under the Teutonic Order and Prussia, with a Lithuanian-speaking lietuvininkai population, Protestant culture, and modern division between Klaipėda Region and Kaliningrad Oblast.
Lithuania national football team
Lithuania national football team (Lietuvos vyrų futbolo rinktinė), men's team of the Lithuanian Football Federation; first international 1923, FIFA readmitted 1991, UEFA 1992, Baltic Cup last won 2010, coach Edgaras Jankauskas.
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Lietuvos mokslų akademija (LMA), Lithuania's national academy of sciences, founded 16 January 1941 in Vilnius; a state budgetary institution advising the Seimas and Government, with five scientific divisions, the Young Academy, and the Wróblewski Library.
Lithuanian Activist Front
The Lithuanian Activist Front (Lietuvių aktyvistų frontas) was an anti-Soviet resistance organization founded in Berlin in 1940 to restore Lithuanian independence, known for the 1941 June Uprising.
Lithuanian Armed Forces
Lithuanian Armed Forces (Lietuvos ginkluotosios pajėgos): military of Lithuania, restored 1992, NATO member since 2004, conscription reinstated 2015, First Division backbone, Suwałki Gap host, 2.5% GDP defense spending.
Lithuanian Christian Democracy
Lithuanian Christian Democracy (Lithuanian: krikščionys demokratai) is one of Lithuania's most important political currents. Its LKDP governed from 1920 to 1926 and was re-established in 1989.
Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party
The Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party (Lietuvos krikščionių demokratų partija, LKDP), founded in 1917, dominated Lithuania's first parliaments, and its leader Aleksandras Stulginskis was president from 1922 to 1926.
Lithuanian Communist Party
The Lithuanian Communist Party (Lietuvos komunistų partija, LKP) was a political party in Lithuania from 1918 to 1991, founded underground and later the ruling party of the Soviet-occupied Lithuanian SSR.
Lithuanian Constitution of 1922
The Lithuanian Constitution of 1922 (Lietuvos Valstybės Konstitucija) was the first permanent constitution of modern Lithuania, adopted on 1 August 1922, establishing a democratic republic dominated by the Seimas.
Lithuanian cross-crafting
Lithuanian cross-crafting (kryždirbystė) is the Lithuanian folk tradition of making and consecrating wooden crosses and wayside shrines, a UNESCO-recognized art best seen at the Hill of Crosses.
Lithuanian cuisine
Lithuanian cuisine (lietuvių virtuvė): national cuisine built on rye, buckwheat, potatoes, mushrooms, and dairy; signature dishes cepelinai, šaltibarščiai, kibinai, šakotis; contested cepelinai origins; Soviet rupture and post-2004 revival.
Lithuanian dainos
Lithuanian dainos are the traditional folk songs of Lithuania, the largest part of the country's sung folklore, with tens of thousands of songs and about 500,000 recorded variants.
Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union
Lietuvos valstiečių ir žaliųjų sąjunga (LVŽS), Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union: centre-right agrarian party founded in its lineage 1990, claiming 1922 roots. Won 54 Seimas seats in 2016, 8 in 2024; led by Aurelijus Veryga since 2025; ECR group member.
Lithuanian grammar
Lithuanian grammar (lietuvių kalba) is the inflection-rich grammatical system of the Eastern Baltic language of Lithuania, with a vocative case, mobile tonic-dynamic accent, and variable word order, codified in Ambrazas' 2005 DLKG.
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) is an East Baltic Indo-European language, closest to Latvian, spoken by about three million people and the official language of Lithuania since 1918 and of the EU since 2004.
Lithuanian litas
The Lithuanian litas was the currency of Lithuania from 1993 to 2015, issued by the Bank of Lithuania under a currency board and replaced by the euro in 2015.
Lithuanian Metrica
The Lithuanian Metrica (Lietuvos Metrika) is the chancery archive of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, recording documents from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century.
Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping
Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping (Lietuvos senovinės bitininkystės muziejus), founded by Bronius Kazlas in Stripeikiai, Aukštaitija National Park: open-air museum with log and straw hives, bee god sculptures, presidential colonies, 12 educational programs, €6 admission.
Lithuanian Music Awards
The Lithuanian Music Awards, known as M.A.M.A., are Lithuania's national music industry honors, first held in 2012 and run by a professional association rather than the government.
Lithuanian mythology
Lithuanian mythology (lietuvių mitologija): pagan Baltic religion with gods Perkūnas, Dievas, Laima, Gabija; state religion until Christianization, known from 13th-century chronicles, folklore, and reconstructed sources.
Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize
The Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize (Lietuvos nacionalinės kultūros ir meno premijos) is the highest state award of Lithuania for culture and art, awarded annually since 1989.
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre
The Lithuanian National Drama Theatre is Lithuania's state drama theater at Gedimino Avenue 4 in Vilnius, founded in 1940 and staging classical and modern plays at home and abroad.
Lithuanian National Radio and Television
Lithuanian National Radio and Television (Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija, LRT) is Lithuania's state-owned public broadcaster, whose radio began in Kaunas in 1926 and television in Vilnius in 1957.
Lithuanian National Revival
The Lithuanian National Revival (Lietuvių tautinis atgimimas) was a late-19th-century cultural and political movement that revived Lithuanian language and identity under Russian rule, beginning with the newspaper Aušra in 1883 and leading to independence in 1918.
Lithuanian Nationalist Union
The Lithuanian Nationalist Union (Lithuanian: Lietuvių tautininkų sąjunga) was a right-wing Lithuanian party, founded in 1924, that supplied the base for Antanas Smetona's authoritarian regime.
Lithuanian Orthodox metropolitanate
The Lithuanian Orthodox metropolitanate (Литовская митрополия) was an Orthodox metropolitanate of Constantinople for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, created under Gediminas and revived twice before 1458.
Lithuanian partisans
Lithuanian partisans, also known as freedom fighters, were the armed anti-Soviet resistance who fought a guerrilla war in Lithuania's forests from the 1944 Soviet reoccupation until 1953, peaking at about 30,000 fighters.
Lithuanian Polish-language literature
Lithuanian Polish-language literature is the Polish-language literary writing of Lithuania, rooted in the multilingual Grand Duchy and centered on Vilnius, home to Adam Mickiewicz and Czesław Miłosz.