Ethnic Borders of Lithuania

[Ghoul]

I doubt they actually asked people what do they consider themselves before raping and killing them in East Prussia...Wasn't it the first German region which Soviets invaded, anyway?

I shutter to think of what those people had to go through.
I saw a documentary that described that some of them tried to escape throu the Curonian spit to Mecklenberg.

[Jarl]

Having flicked through some old maps and digged into the literature I must conclude that generally speaking Lithuanian maps printed before 1920 were quite accurate. Many of them seem to be variants of on a single map and differ very slightly. For instance in some of them the area near Przerosl is not Lithuanian (and that is correct). I particulary think one single map by Antanas Smetona printed in 1914 in a Lithuanian newspaper is very accurate as it gives several lines of the extent of Lithuanian language by different authors.

Generally it does not differ much from the one posted above. Only around Przerosl and Sejny-Berzniki is recedes back a little - which is correct and in accordance to Lithuanian ethnographists. This variant which I showed here presents the furthest extent of ethnic Lithuanian settlement (not counting colonies dispersed among Polish or Ruthenian areas). It has to be noted though that the solid Lithuanian settlement did not reach far beyond the Berzniki-Sejny-Wizajny line/road (only South of Wizajny there were several early Lithuanian villages). Further to the South there were some Lithuanian villages were interspersed among Polish and Ruthenian settlements.

So while the part of the old Sejny and Suwalki districts that are now part of Poland were generally more Polish-Belarusian than Lithuanian, the Northern fringes counting perhaps some 60-odd villages and hamlets belonged to historically ethnic Lithuanian territory. However by early XXth century the are became quite mixed and bilingual. Lithuanians had a clear majority only in the area near Punsk (as they still do even today), North of Sejny-Szypliszki line.

[Mans not hot]

South Lithuania jest Polska.

[arcticwolf]

South Lithuania jest Polska.

Lithuanians are our brothers and sisters. Let them be.

[tiger]

South Lithuania jest Polska.

It's only temporary...

[Jarl]

lol

[tiger]

The same period:

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...ous/ethnic.jpg

[Skomand]

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It's interesting to see how far inland (Proto-) Lithuanians lived round 500 according to Buga.
The German geographer Mortensen sees the Lithuanian
westward movement to the Baltic Sea and their final settlement in the 16th century in East Prussia as the very last stage of the Great Peoples' Migration (Völkerwanderung).

[Meow]

Don't forget London, it's full of lithuanians

[Skomand]

please clean