2, 955, 200 people in Lithuania ( including 3, 460 Tatars ), or about 80 % of the 1998 population, are native Lithuanian speakers ; most Lithuanian inhabitants of other nationalities also speak Lithuanian to some extent.

In Estonia the 50-100 pairs in 1998 have reduced to no known breeding pairs in 2004 ; in Latvia and Lithuania populations have decreased from several thousand of pairs in the 1970s to under 30 pairs in 2004.

At one point in 1998, two separate teams ( one in Germany, the other in Lithuania ) announced that they had located the Amber Room, the first in a silver mine, the second buried in a lagoon ; neither produced the Amber Room.

Category: 1998 establishments in Lithuania

* Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania, 1998

Valdas Adamkus ( pronounced ; born in Kaunas, Lithuania ; November 3, 1926 ) was President of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.

In Lithuania, the President's tenure lasts for five years ; Adamkus ' first term in office began on February 26, 1998 and ended on February 28, 2003, following his defeat by Rolandas Paksas in the next presidential election.

He was elected as President of Lithuania in 1998, defeating Artūras Paulauskas in the runoff, serving from then until 2003, when he ran for re-election, but was unexpectedly defeated by Rolandas Paksas.

In the 1990s, Lithuania established a respectable presence in World Cup and European Championship qualifiers: third place in their group in both UEFA Euro 1996 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

It has won Lithuanian championships in 1985 ( Soviet Lithuania ), 1993, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2010, the Lithuanian Cup in 1985 ( Soviet Lithuania ), 1998, 2000, 2010 and 2011 and the Lithuanian Super Cup in 1998, 2006, 2010 and 2011.

CEST was used also in years 1993 – 1995 in Portugal and 1998 – 1999 in Lithuania.

In 1998, Murza and other members of his party, Lithuanian Alliance of Nationalist-Socialist Unity, in their publications " Voice of the Nation " attacked Lithuania's minorities of Jews, Poles and Russians, and demanded that conditions for these minorities be made so unbearable so that they would leave Lithuania.

* Lithuania, in years 1981 – 88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989, in years 1998 was changed to Central European Summer Time, but returned to EEST since 2003

He has read papers at 31 universities outside the U. S. including 14 in China, 7 in Russia, Vilnius University, ( Vilnius, Lithuania ) ( 1993 ), Latvian Academy of Science, ( Riga, Latvia ) ( 1993 ), University of Minsk, ( Minsk, Belarus ) ( 1993 ), University of Edinburgh, ( Edinburgh, Scotland ) ( 1993 ), Tokyo Christian University, ( Tokyo, Japan ) ( 1997 ), University of Hong Kong ( Hong Kong ) ( 1997 ), Oxford University ( Oxford, England )( 1998 ), and the University of London, ( London, England ), ( 1998 ).

SKAMP is one of the most popular bands in Lithuania since its inception in 1998 and is well-known abroad.

Between 1998 and 2000 he was the deputy commander of the Multinational Corps North East composed of forces of Poland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia.

Category: 1998 establishments in Lithuania

It was established in June 1998 in Vilnius, Lithuania, " the last European country to resist the onslaught of Christianity ".

* Meir Atlas ( 1848 – 1926 ), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

( Christianity, a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu ), and its related observances:

He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father ( 1492 ), and King of Poland on the death of his brother John I Albert ( 1501 ).

* Alexander Jagiellon ( 1461 – 1506 ), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland

1309 – 26 May 1339 ) was the Queen of Poland ( 1333 – 1339 ), and the Princess of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Saint Bruno of Querfurt ( c. 974 – February 14, 1009 ), also known as Brun and Boniface, is a sainted missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.

These later annexed territories include Eastern Poland ( incorporated into two different SSRs ), Latvia ( became Latvia SSR ), Estonia ( became Estonian SSR ), Lithuania ( became Lithuania SSR ), part of eastern Finland ( became part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR ) and northern Romania ( became the Moldavian SSR ).

The Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) is a loose alliance or confederation consisting of 10 of the 15 former Soviet Republics, the exceptions being Turkmenistan ( a CIS associate member ), Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Georgia.

With the exceptions of Dr Davis McCaughey ( b. Ireland ), Professor David de Kretser ( b. Ceylon ) and incumbent Alex Chernov ( b. Lithuania ), all subsequent governors have been Australian-born.

In some countries ( Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland ), there are other editions that lack some features such as Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer called names such as " Windows 7 N ."

Piłsudski had entertained far-reaching anti-Russian cooperative designs for Eastern Europe, and in 1919 the Polish forces pushed eastward into Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine ( previously a theater of the Polish – Ukrainian War ), taking advantage of the Russian preoccupation with the civil war.

It is estimated that in the aftermath of World War II between 13 and 16 million ethnic Germans were expelled from the territories of Eastern Germany ( present-day part of Poland ), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia ( mostly from the Vojvodina region ), the Kaliningrad Oblast ( formerly northern part of East Prussia ) area of Russia, Lithuania, Romania and other East European countries.

Pessimism in the south was more intense after the Cossacks ' Uprising ( 1648 – 1654 ) under Chmielnicki and the turbulent times in Poland ( 1648 – 1660 ), which violently ruined the Jewry of South East Poland, but did not much affect that of Lithuania and Estonia.

That same year ( 1385 ), Jogaila and the lords of Lesser Poland signed the Union of Krewo whereby Jogaila pledged to adopt Western Christianity and unite Lithuania with Poland in exchange for Jadwiga's hand and the Polish crown.

Its neighbors include Estonia on the north ( 267 kilometers of common border ), Lithuania on the south ( 453 kilometers ), Belarus on the southeast ( 141 kilometers ), and Russia on the east ( 217 kilometers ).

In 1940 the Soviet Union occupied Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia ( now the Republic of Moldova ) and Bukovina.

In the early 13th century, two German religious orders, the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, conquered much of the area that is now Estonia and Latvia, in addition to parts of Lithuania.

Polanyi, born Polányi Mihály () in Budapest, was the fifth child of Mihály and Cecília Pollacsek, secular Jews from Ungvár ( then in Hungary but now in the Ukraine ) and Vilnius in Lithuania, respectively.

Now generally considered the founder of the Lithuanian state, he is also now credited with stopping the advance of the Tatars towards the Baltic Sea, establishing international recognition of Lithuania, and turning it towards Western civilization.

By the 12th century, the peoples inhabiting the lands now known as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formed a pagan wedge between increasingly powerful rival Christian states – Greek Orthodox Church to their east and Catholic Church to their west.

Hrodna, Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( now in Belarus )

* Uniwersytet Stefana Batorego ( Stefan Batory University ), now Vilnius University, a university in Lithuania

The building complex “ Vilnius Business Harbour ” was built in 2008, and one of its towers is now the 5th tallest building in Lithuania.

Closely related to the Old Prussian language, it was formerly spoken southwest of the Nemunas river in what is now Lithuania, east of Galindia and north of Yotvingia, and by exiles in East Prussia.

From 1652 he also worked as a country " missionary ", in among other places Polotsk, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where he was probably stationed in 1655, and also in Pinsk, Lithuania ( both now in Belarus ).

They all mostly settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, lands that are now in Lithuania and Belarus.

" He was commissioned a junior officer in the Russian Imperial Guard and sent to Minsk and Gardinas in Lithuania ( now Belarus ).

John pursued an expansionist policy in Livonia ( now Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ) which led to contention between the brothers.

Cesarius-Benjaminus ( Цезарий-Вениамин ) Cui was born in Vilnius, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire ( now Vilnius, Lithuania ), to a Roman Catholic family, the youngest of five children.

The throne of Lithuania was now occupied by Casimir's son Alexander, a weak and lethargic prince so incapable of defending his possessions against the persistent attacks of the Russians that he attempted to save them by a matrimonial compact, and wedded Helena, Ivan's daughter.

His paternal grandfather, Isidor Shokhet ( from shochet, meaning " kosher butcher " in Hebrew ), lived in Kretinga, a city in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire ( now in Lithuania ), and changed his surname to the Germanised Suchedowitz after escaping to Memel, Prussia, and then to Suchet after moving to Cape Town, South Africa.

* Memel, a city in East Prussia, Germany, now known as Klaipėda, part of Lithuania

Gielgud's Catholic father, Franciszek Giełgud, born in 1880, was a descendant of a Polish noble family residing at a manor in a town called Giełgudyszki ( now Gelgaudiškis in Marijampolė County, Lithuania ).

He was born at Matzicken, a village just to the east of Heydekrug in the Province of Prussia ( now Macikai and Šilutė, in southwestern Lithuania ), close to the Russian frontier.

The city of Memel, now in Lithuania, is known today as Klaipėda.

The raccoon dog is now abundant throughout Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and has been reported as far away as Serbia, France, Romania, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.

For six years Lucaris served as professor of the Orthodox academy in Vilnius ( now in Lithuania ).

It is estimated by geneticists that the gene for blonde hair originated about 3000 BC in the area now known as Lithuania among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers of the area ( Lithuania is still the country that has the highest percentage of people with blonde hair ); it is thought the gene spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia when that area was settled because men found women with blonde hair attractive.