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Name: Lietuva
Capital: Vilnius
Government: parliamentary democracy
Currency: litas (LTL)
Official language: Lithuanian 82%
Other languages spoken: Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other and unspecified 4.4%
Religions: Roman Catholic 79%, Russian Orthodox 4.1%, Protestant (including Lutheran and Evangelical Christian Baptist) 1.9%, other or unspecified 5.5%, none 9.5%

Brief History. In the 1300s, Lithuania's empire stretched to Belarus and the Ukraine. By the end of the 18th century, Lithuania had been subsumed into Russia. Lithuanians supported the anti-Russian rebellions that arose in 1830 and 1863. The Russians responded by trying to erase the Lithuanian national identity but the people resisted and preserved a strong (if somewhat hidden) identity based on ethnicity, religion, and language. In September 1991, the USSR conceded and recognized Lithuania as an independent country.

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