Memel is the name for both a town and a river ( the same river in the neighboring country has the name Nemunas / Neman River and Njemen in Russia ).

Situated on the right bank of the Neman River, it has a population of about 800.

It is located on the Neman River, close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania ( about 20 km and 30 km away respectively ).

The Neman River basin was formed during the Quaternary period, and is located roughly along the edge of the last glacial sheet, dating from about 25, 000 – 22, 000 years BP ( before present ).

* The Neman is a slow river ; it flows at about one to two meters / second.

At the beginning of Baltic history, the Old Prussians were bordered by the Vistula and the Memel – earlier Mimmel – river, which outside of Prussia is called Neman Rivers with a southern depth to about Thorn at the Vistula river, which was Prussian, and the line of the River Narew.

The administrative Lithuanian Province ( part of the administrative province of Sambia ) ( about 10 000 km² ) comprised four districts of that time: Klaipėda ( Memel ), Tilžė ( Tilsit, Sovetsk ), Ragainė ( Raganita, Ragnit, Neman ) and Įsrutis ( Insterburg, Cerniachovsk ).

Lithuanians had limited intelligence warning about such attack, but chose inadequate defensive strategy and spread their forces too thinly along the entire Polish – Lithuanian front without sufficient forces to protect bridges across the Neman.

The Neman River and some of its tributaries are used for internal shipping ( in 2000, 89 inland ships carried 900, 000 tons of cargo, which is less than 1 % of the total goods traffic ).

* In the Neman basin there are tributaries extending to the 11th order.

It is on the right-hand shore of the Neman River at its confluence with the tributaries Mituva and Imsre.

The conflict was also motivated by trade considerations: the Knights controlled lower reaches of the three largest rivers ( Neman, Vistula and Daugava ) in Poland and Lithuania.

Punia is proud of the Hill of Margiris (, 30 metres high ), one of the largest hill forts in Lithuania, in the bend of the Neman River.

When the Treaty was being formulated, it was noted by an observer that the Prussian king was pacing on the bank of the Neman river ; Napoleon had to " but raise his hand, and Prussia would cease to exist.

They include the major rivers of north Europe, such as the Oder, the Vistula, the Neman, the Daugava and the Neva.

The following rivers flow through the city: the Neman River, the Łasasianka River and the Haradničanka River with its branch the Jurysdyka River.

* The Neman basin in Lithuania drains more than 20, 000 rivers and rivulets and covers 72 % of Lithuania's territory.

New East Prussia encompassed territory between East Prussia and the Vistula, Bug River, and Neman rivers.

By February 14 Polish forces had secured positions along the line of Kobryn, Pruzhany, rivers Zalewianka and Neman.

During Vytenis's reign a network of defensive castles was established and strengthened along the banks of the Neman and Jūra rivers ; the Knights matched this with their own castles on the opposite bank.

Confluence of Neman and Neris in Kaunas

Klaipėda / Memel, Sovetsk / Tilsit, Masty / Mosty, Hrodna / Grodno, Druskininkai / Druskienniki, Alytus / Olita, Kaunas / Kovno, Neman / Ragnit.

Germanisation policies were tightened during the 19th century, but even into the early 20th century the territories north and south / south-west of the Neman River contained a Lithuanian majority.

* The total length of the Neman is 937 kilometers ( 582 miles ).

From June to September 1915 the division moved from north of Warsaw to positions close to the Neman River, an advance of hundreds of miles in the campaign in which Poland was taken.

* Neman River ( German Memel ), part of a river in East Prussia, Germany, mentioned in the Deutschlandlied ( 1841 ) as the eastern border of Germany

6, a2 ), couples Badb and Neman as the wives of Neid or Neit :—

Also, in the Irish books of genealogy, both Fea and Neman are said to have been the two daughters of Elcmar of the Brugh ( Newgrange, near the Boyne ), who was the son of Delbaeth, son of Ogma, son of Elatan, and the wives of Neid son of Indae.

The Grande Armée, consisting of as many as 650, 000 men ( roughly half of whom were French, with the remainder coming from allies or subject areas ), crossed the Neman River on 23 June 1812.

* Neman ( bus ), bus manufacturer in Belarus

Black Ruthenia, Black Rus and Black Russia-all variant conventional terms-identified a region around Navahrudak ( Novgorodok ), in the western part of contemporary Belarus on the upper reaches of the Neman River for the time period between the 13th and 14th centuries.

Occasionally other venues were also used: Molodechno City Stadium in May 1996 ( friendly against Azerbaijan ), Vitebsky Central Sport Complex in Vitebsk in November 2005 ( friendly against Latvia ), Central Stadion in Gomel in October 2007 ( Euro 2008 qualifying match against Luxembourg ), Neman Stadium in Grodno June 2009 ( 2010 World Cup qualifier against Andorra ), Borisov City Stadium just a few days later ( friendly against Moldova ) and Regional Sport Complex Brestskiy in Brest in October 2009 ( another 2010 World Cup quallifier against Kazakhstan ).

The stronghold was called Landeshut, but the name did not become popular and the name Ragnit after the local river, a tributary of the Memel ( outside of Prussia called Neman ), continued to be used.

Vytautas claimed that all territory north of the Neman River, including port city Memel ( Klaipėda ), was part of Samogitia and thus should be transferred to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Because of its good geographical location ( Neman River, direct route to Trakai ), Punia became a local center.

The second edition of that anthology, published in 1844 under the title of Piosnki wieśniacze znad Niemna z dołączeniem pierwotwornych w mowie słowiańsko-krewickiej ( Folk Songs of the Neman River with Originals Written in Slavic-Krevich Language ), was significantly expanded and included many translations of his works to what could be seen as a predecessor of modern Belarusian language.

The Šešupė flows into the Neman River near the town of Neman.

The town of Augustów, located on a canal ( 65 mi ) connecting the Vistula with the Neman River, was also known as Augustowo, wrote Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ( 1911 ).

It flows through Vilnius ( Lithuania ) and becomes a tributary of the Neman River ( Nemunas ) at Kaunas ( Lithuania ).

Soon after his first successful concerts in France, he started to use the pseudonym Niemen instead of his real name, gaining wider notoriety in Poland and making it easier to pronounce by foreigners ( Niemen is a Polish pronunciation of the Neman River and this way he wanted to mark his birth country ).

Both sides agreed to an armistice, but only to the east of the Neman River ( the Suwałki Region ).

For example, in Lithuania two regions are distinguished: southern ( under influence of the Neman culture ) and western ( with major settlements found in Šventoji ).

Because its publication was illegal in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, it was printed in Tilsit ( current Sovetsk ) and Ragnit ( current Neman ) in German East Prussia and smuggled into Lithuania by the knygnešiai ( book smugglers ).

The Knights, who took a defensive position, did not expect a joint attack and were preparing for a dual invasion – by the Poles along the Vistula River towards Danzig ( Gdańsk ) and by the Lithuanians along the Neman River towards Ragnit ( Neman ).

In 1837 he was allowed to publish his first book, the Piosnki wieśniacze znad Niemna ( Folk Songs of the Neman River ).