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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.
Curonian Spit, a large peninsula in the Baltic Sea
* Curonian Spit, Kaliningrad Oblast ( shared with Lithuania )
* Curonian Spit
According to Balt legends, the playing of a girl giantess named Neringa on the seashore formed the Curonian Spit (" neria, nerge, neringia " means land which is diving up and down like a swimmer ).
Great Sleigh Drive ( 1678 ): Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | Frederick William pursues Swedish troops across the frozen Curonian Spit | Curonian Lagoon ; fresco by Wilhelm Simmler, ca.
The Curonian Spit off the coast of Lithuania and Kaliningrad Oblast ( Russia ) separates Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea and is 98 km long.
It was developed in 1957 by Janis Jakšisat under the leadership of Lev Belopolsky at the Rybachy Biological Station ( formerly the Rossitten Bird Observatory ) at Rybachy, Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia, on the Curonian Spit.
Zelenogradsk, (; ; ) is a town and the administrative center of Zelenogradsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located north of Kaliningrad on the Sambian coastline near the Curonian Spit on the Baltic Sea.
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The Curonian Spit (,,, ) is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea coast.
The northern 52 km long stretch of the Curonian Spit peninsula belongs to Lithuania, while the rest is part of the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia ( see the map ).
The Curonian Spit was formed about 3rd millennium BC.
A glacial moraine served as its foundation ; winds and sea currents later contributed enough sand to raise and keep the formation above sea level. Curonian Spit and Lagoon
According to Baltic mythology, the Curonian Spit was formed by a giantess, Neringa, who was playing on the seashore.
In the 19th century the Curonian Spit was inhabited primarily by Curonians ( Kursenieki ) with a significant German minority in the south and a Lithuanian minority in the north.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, tourism flourished ; many Germans, mostly the descendants of the inhabitants of the area, choose the Curonian Spit ( especially Nida, as no visas are needed for Germans in Lithuania ) as their holiday destination.
The Curonian Spit is home to the highest moving ( drifting ) sand dunes in Europe.
The northern shoreline of Curonian Spit is the site of beaches for tourists.
The settlements of the Curonian Spit ( from north to south ) are:

Curonian and from
The original settlement at the location of modern Liepāja was founded by Curonian fishermen of Piemare and was known by the name Līva ( from the name of the river Līva on which Liepāja was located, which in turn originated from the Livonian word Liiv meaning " sand ").
No written documents in this language are known, but some ancient Lithuanian texts from western regions show some Curonian influence.
For example, a treaty from 1230 calls Curonian administrative divisions kiligunden ( kihelkond in Estonian ) and the Curonian army maleva.
The construction of an offshore oil-drilling facility ( the Kravtsovskoye ( D-6 ) oilfield ) in the territorial waters of Russia, 22. 5 kilometres from the coastline of the Curonian Spit raised concerns over possible oil spills.
This word appears as a segment in Baltic settlement names, especially Curonian, and it is found in Old Prussian placenames such as Stablack, from stabs ( stone ) + laūks ( field, thus stone field ).
Image: Kurenwimpel aus Nidden ( 2004 ). JPG | Curonian flag from Nida
The southwestern line ran from the Curonian Lagoon () along the Deimena River to its south, continued along the Prieglius River to the Alna ( now Lava ) river, up to the town of Alna and hence southward along the Ašvinė ( Swine ) river to Lake Ašvinis ( Nordenburger See ) and from there eastward to the border of Lithuania Major.
The Curonians or Kurs ( Curonian: Kursi ; ; ; ; ; ) were a Baltic tribe living on the shores of the Baltic Sea in what are now the western parts of Latvia and Lithuania from the 5th to the 16th centuries, when they merged with other Baltic tribes.
The Samogitian language, heavily influenced by Curonian, originated from the East Baltic proto-Samogitian dialect which was close to Aukstaitian dialects.
The town was a gathering place for peasants from nearby Samogitia and Curonian and Prussian fishermen from Rusnė, Karklė, Nida, and Lesnoye.

Curonian and Peninsula
In Curonia, the Livonian language and culture also came under heavy pressure, but here it retained a last foothold on the outermost tip of the Curonian Peninsula.
The Curonian Peninsula was one of the areas where the Germans held out until the general capitulation of May 5, 1945, which meant there was not a house left standing when the Livonians returned home after the war.

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Based on the amber, the island could have been Heligoland, Zealand, the shores of Bay of Gdansk, Sambia or the Curonian Lagoon, which were historically the richest sources of amber in northern Europe.
Based on the amber, the island could have been Heligoland, Zealand, the shores of Bay of Gdansk, Sambia or the Curonian Lagoon, which were historically the richest sources of amber in northern Europe.
The Curonian Lagoon ( to the north-east ) and the Vistula Lagoon ( on the southwest ) demarcate the peninsula.
Image: Baltic spits. png | Vistula and Curonian lagoons on the Baltic Sea.
Since 2000, the Curonian Spit has been on UNESCO's World Heritage List under cultural criteria " V " ( an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture [...], or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change ).
Nida () is a resort town in Lithuania, located on the Curonian Spit.
The town is known for Nidden Kurenwimpel, ornate carved flags peculiar to local families resident on the Curonian Spit.
It is located on the northern tip of the Curonian Spit, next to a narrow strait which connects the Curonian Lagoon to the Baltic Sea.
Juodkrantė ( literally: Black Shore, German: Schwarzort Place ) with permanent population of about 720 people is a quiet Lithuanian seaside resort village located on the Curonian Spit.
From the high Middle Ages to 1945, Rybachy was named Rossitten, a German settlement on the Curonian Spit, part of Prussia and then of Germany until the end of World War II.
Rybachy translates as " Fishers ' ( settlement )", and appropriately employment centers on the fishing boats which dock at the pier on the Curonian Lagoon of the Baltic Sea.

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