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Klaipėda and Memel
As a result of Ribbentrop's ultimatum on 23 March, the Lithuanians agreed to return Memel ( modern Klaipėda, Lithuania ) to Germany.
The port city of Memel ( now Klaipėda ) and the surrounding area, with a predominantly German population, was under provisional Allied control according to Article 99 of the Treaty of Versailles.
* 1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region ( Memel Territory ) into Lithuania.
The Lithuanian victory in the Battle of Saule temporarily stabilized the northern front, but the Christian orders continued to make gains along the Baltic coast, founding the city of Klaipėda ( Memel ).
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region ( Memel Territory ).
* The Lithuanian city of Klaipėda ( Memel ) is founded by the Teutonic Knights.
Kaller was also appointed apostolic visitator to the then 8, 000 Catholic faithful in Memelland, a Lithuanian-annexed formerly East Prussian area, whose then four Catholic parishes had been seceded from Ermland diocese and subsequently formed part of the Territorial Prelature of Memel ( Klaipėda ); ; ; ) existing between 1926 and 1991.
* Memel, a city in East Prussia, Germany, now known as Klaipėda, part of Lithuania
** Memel Territory ( Memelland ), the area separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, later called Klaipėda Region
Klaipėda / Memel, Sovetsk / Tilsit, Masty / Mosty, Hrodna / Grodno, Druskininkai / Druskienniki, Alytus / Olita, Kaunas / Kovno, Neman / Ragnit.
The city of Memel, now in Lithuania, is known today as Klaipėda.
Under border changes promulgated at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, the former German Memelland, with its Baltic port Memel ( Lithuanian: Klaipėda ), was again transferred to Lithuania, or as it was after 1945 the Lithuanian SSR.
In 1833 Steenke built a canal, the Seckenburger Kanal, in the Memel ( Klaipėda ) area.
* The northeastern part of East Prussia, named Memel Territory, which was placed under the control of France ( and was later annexed by Lithuania, as the Klaipėda Region ),
** Klaipėda in Lithuania ( former Memel territory )
Samogitia was returned to Lithuania in perpetuity, while the city of Memel ( present-day Klaipėda ) and surrounding territories stayed with the Order.
Adomeit was born in Memel in Germany ( now Klaipėda in Lithuania ), but at the age of four he moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, which became his home, and which was where he died in 1967.
Argelander was born in Memel in the Kingdom of Prussia ( now Klaipėda in Lithuania ), the son of a Finnish father, Johann Gottfried Argelander, and German mother, Wilhelmina Dorotea Grünhagen.
Wohlfahrt was born in Memel in the Duchy of Prussia ( now Klaipėda in Lithuania ), but emigrated to North America.
Simon Dach ( 29 July 1605 – 15 April 1659 ) was a Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns, born in Memel ( now Klaipėda ) in the Duchy of Prussia.
The Klaipėda Region () or Memel Territory () was defined by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 when it was put under the administration of the Council of Ambassadors.
The original Scalovian and Curonian territory was conquered around 1252 by the Teutonic Knights, who constructed Memelburg (" Memel Castle ") and the city of Memel ( now usually known by its Lithuanian name Klaipėda ).

Klaipėda and Lithuania
Finally, Lithuania has 108 kilometres of Baltic seashore with an ice-free harbor at Klaipėda.
* A1 highway ( Lithuania )-connecting Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda ( part of Via Baltica from Kaunas to Sitkūnai )
The Klaipėda Convention was approved by the League Council on 14 March 1924, and then by the Allied powers and Lithuania.
After Lithuania took over the Klaipėda Region, the Allied Conference set the frontier between Lithuania and Poland, leaving Vilnius within Poland, on 14 March 1923.
* 110 km < sup > 2 </ sup > -- Klaipėda, Lithuania
Lithuania was given the province of Samogitia, with the port of Palanga, but the city of Klaipėda was left to the Order.
** Klaipėda University ( Lithuania )
* Klaipėda, Lithuania
Neman, Nyoman, Niemen or Nemunas is a major Eastern European river rising in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Curonian Lagoon and then into the Baltic Sea at Klaipėda.
* Klaipėda, Lithuania
Partnership between Kuji and Klaipėda began in 1989, 1 year before the independence of Lithuania, hence becoming the first Lithuanian sister city in Japan.
It was basically a modification of " Hymans ' plan ", with the difference that the Klaipėda Region ( the area in East Prussia north of the Neman River ) was to be incorporated into Lithuania in exchange for granting certain level of internal autonomy to the Central Lithuania.
In 1945, the Soviets denied the existence of the Lithuania Minor ethnographic region due to political concerns, declaring the Klaipėda region a part of Samogitia.
Before Klaipėda was attached to Lithuania, the city was second after Kaunas by population size.

Klaipėda and by
Lithuania's major warm-water port of Klaipėda lies at the narrow mouth of Curonian Lagoon, a shallow lagoon extending south to Kaliningrad and separated from the Baltic sea by Curonian Spit, where Kuršių Nerija National Park was established for its remarkable sand dunes.
The Klaipėda Territory, a League of Nations mandate since 1920, was occupied by Lithuanian troops in 1923 and was annexed without giving the inhabitants a choice by the ballot.
A western subdialect once existed in the Klaipėda region, but it became extinct after World War II after its inhabitants fled the region, as a result of being expelled or persecuted by the Soviet authorities ( since the 16th or even 15th century the Samogitians of the Klaipėda region called themselves " Lietuvininkai ", and since the end of 19th century they called themselves " Prūsai "; after World War II the territory of the western subdialect was resettled mainly by northern and southern Samogitians, and by other Lithuanians also ).
However, the eastern parts of Lithuania, including the Vilnius region, were annexed by Poland, while the Klaipėda Region was taken over by Nazi Germany in 1939.
In 1931, he tied for 2nd-5th at the first Baltic Championship in Klaipėda, which was won by Isakas Vistaneckis.
The then predominantly ethnic German ( other ethnic groups, Prussian Lithuanians and Memellanders constituted the other ethnic groups ) Memel Territory, situated between the river and the town of that name, was occupied by Lithuania in the " Klaipėda Revolt " of 1923.
With the exception of the Klaipėda Region, which became a mandated territory of the League of Nations in 1920 by the Treaty of Versailles and was annexed to Lithuania from 1923 to 1939, the area was part of Prussia until 1945.
Giving the Prussian Lithuanian name first and followed by the German name, the major cities in former Lithuania Minor were Klaipėda ( Memel ) and Tilžė ( Tilsit ).

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