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.

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

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

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 ).

** Memel Territory ( Memelland ), the area separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, later called Klaipėda Region

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.

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.

* 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 ),

In 1925, Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ) and surroundings, before part of Culm Diocese, were attached to Ermland, while the Klaipėda Region was dissected in 1926 as territorial prelature of its own.

The land of the Old Prussians consisted approximately of central and southern East Prussia — the present-day Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship of Poland, the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, and the southern Klaipėda Region of Lithuania.

After the Klaipėda Revolt of 1923, Merkys became secretary to the Klaipėda Region Commissioner, Antanas Smetona.

Following the coup d ' état in 1926, he became Minister of Defence again until 1927, when he was made Governor of Klaipėda Region.

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Postage stamps of the Klaipėda Region in use 1920-1925.

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

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.

A few days thereafter, Germany occupied Czechoslovakia and then the Klaipėda Region ( Memel ), making a German war with Poland far more likely.

: German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop delivers an oral ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding that it return the Klaipėda Region.

After Lithuanians seized the Klaipėda Region in January 1923, the League saw recognition of Lithuanian interest in Klaipėda as adequate compensation for the loss of Vilnius.

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.

Klaipėda County () is one of ten counties in Lithuania.

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

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.

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 ).

* 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.

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

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

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.

** 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 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 ).

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.

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.

* Memel Territory and Klaipėda Revolt