Category: People from Klaipėda County

On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Klaipėda County remains as the territorial and statistical unit.

* Social and demographic characteristics of Klaipėda County

* Economy of Klaipėda County

* Environment of Klaipėda County

id: County Klaipėda

It is located in the Klaipėda County, Kretinga district.

Category: Cities in Klaipėda County

Category: People from Klaipėda County

Category: People from Klaipėda County

The Duchy was located in what today is several counties ( apskritis ) in Lithuania: a small part of Kaunas County ( Kauno Apskritis ), the western part Šiauliai County ( Šiaulių Apskritis ), Tauragė County ( Tauragės Apskritis ), Telšiai County ( Telšių Apskritis ), the northern part of Klaipėda County ( Klaipėdos Apskritis ) and the northern part of Marijampolė County ( Marijampolės Apskritis ).

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Šilutė (, previously Šilokarčiama, ) is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County, Lithuania.

Category: Cities in Klaipėda County

Kretinga (, ) is a city in the Klaipėda County, Lithuania.

Category: Cities in Klaipėda County

Category: Cities in Klaipėda County

Category: Municipalities of Klaipėda County

Until 1740 the village belonged to ( Klaipėda County ), then from 1740-1795 to Church District ( Karvaičiai ).

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.

Smiltynė () is a part of Klaipėda city municipality in Lithuania.

* 1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region ( Memel Territory ) into Lithuania.

* The Lithuanian city of Klaipėda ( Memel ) is founded by the Teutonic Knights.

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.

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

The largest city is Šiauliai, or Klaipėda if the latter is considered in the region.

The Curonian Spit stretches from the Sambian Peninsula on the south to its northern tip next to a narrow strait, across which is the port city of Klaipėda on the mainland of Lithuania.

The Russian side of the Curonian Spit belongs to Zelenogradsk district of the Kaliningrad Oblast, while the Lithuanian side is partitioned among Klaipėda city municipality and Neringa municipality.

Its capital is Klaipėda.

The company, located in Klaipėda, is the only shipbuilding yard in the Baltic States ( Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia ) that supplies fleets and marine companies worldwide.

Samogitian is also divided into three major sub-dialects: Northern Samogitian ( spoken in Telšiai and Kretinga regions ), Western Samogitian ( was spoken in the region around Klaipėda, now nearly extinct, – after 1945, many people were expelled and new ones came to this region ) and Southern Samogitian ( spoken in Varniai, Kelmė, Tauragė and Raseiniai regions ).

Across the 0. 5 km wide strait, on the Lithuanian mainland, is the port city of Klaipėda.

Memel is a small town in the Free State province of South Africa, possibly named after the port city of Memel, East Prussia ( today Klaipėda, Lithuania ), but no current residents can verify that.

It is located in the historic Prussia region, east of the town of Sovetsk, on the steep southern bank of the Neman River, where it currently forms the border with the Klaipėda Region in Lithuania.

According to The Bank of Lithuania official website, it is managed by Supervision Service ; ten departments: Economics, Statistics, Market Operations, International Relations, Payment Systems, Cash, Accounting, Information Technology, General Services and Security ; six autonomous divisions ( Internal Audit, Legal, Organisation and Personnel, General and Public Relations, Risk Management ), and Bank of Lithuania Branches in Kaunas and Klaipėda.

It is located east of the popular Baltic Sea resort town of Palanga, and about north of Lithuania's 3rd largest city and principal seaport, Klaipėda.

The municipality is accessed by roads from Klaipėda and Šiauliai.

Juodkrantė is on inland waterway from Nida to Klaipėda.

The latter one was issued especially for postal use in the Klaipėda Region.

Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, war-torn East Prussia was divided at Joseph Stalin's insistence between the Soviet Union ( the Kaliningrad Oblast in the Russian SFSR and the constituent counties of the Klaipėda Region in the Lithuanian SSR ) and the People's Republic of Poland ( the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ).

As a result of Ribbentrop's ultimatum on 23 March, the Lithuanians agreed to return Memel ( modern Klaipėda, Lithuania ) to Germany.

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.

* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region ( Memel Territory ).

* 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 ( Memel, Lithuania, served by DFDS Lisco ),

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

* Klaipėda, Lithuania

* 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.

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.

Before Klaipėda was attached to Lithuania, the city was second after Kaunas by population size.