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 == Mindaugas II from Monaco? == 

 ""On February 16, 1918, Lithuania re-established its independence. From July, 1918 until November of that year, Monaco-born King Mindaugas II was the titular monarch of Lithuania"" - what the f***?  
 * That's all correct. That was done when Lithuania was occupied by German forces at the end of World War I. Germans did not want independent Lithuania and were thinking to make their monarch the head of Lithuania, but Lithuanians beat them by announcing Mindaugas II as their king.   

 == Terms of administrative division == 

 A vote started on the subject apskritis vs. county, see: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Subnational entities/Naming#Apskritys of Lithuania - Vote. 

 I see a problem now.  decided to change counties to apskritys. This thing becomes more problematic, than we could think, for  the term apskritis is new, coined only  in the Lithuanian national renaissance period, perhaps during the WWI. Slavic words, both Polish and Russian, very differ from spoken stylistic of Lithuanian language, so Lithuanians easily changed many words of Slavic origin to Lithuanian derivatives then. And pavietas or pavietis, a Polish word, was among them. Using different names for different periods, we understand, that they signify the same entity, but I doubt if many users of wikipedia could understand it. I would prefer an English word to all this our lexical tangle. So, what English word do Poles use for powiat (in wikipedia and generally) and if you use any at all?   

 :As I see county is used for Polish powiat in English wikipedia.   

 Well of course apskritis should be left untranslated, same as oblast, krai and the mentioned Polish derivatives too. Apskritis is a special word used almost only for Lithuanian administrative units. Apygarda in some cases might be translate dto county maybe, but grafystė is the best translation as county is derrived from count (grafas). Even when translating from English e.g. US counties it is frequently translated by grafystė even though there are no counts (""Santa Klaros grafystė""), therefore translating apskritis to county is strange and comes out of misconception. BTW, I made a special article, you can discuss there: Translations of Lithuanian administrative divisions   

 : You might also notice that Lithuanians use ""apskritis"" for Russian oblast  'Maskvos apskritis'. I believe county is a neutral English term for such subdivisions, its ethymology notwithstanding. Look it up in WordNet for instance.  00:29, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)  

 ::Note - actually, ""sritis"" is used for ""oblast"" rather than ""apskritits"" (Kaliningrado sritis, Maskvos sritis and such).  

 Poles use county along with powiat. If You want to simplify the terminology and to make it more usable, introducing apskritis you'll  get the reverse result. You argue, Lithuanians use the term apskritis alone. It's not too consequent. If we assumed this, we should leave all Lithuanian words untranslated. We give Lithuanian original in the brackets, but county is used for simplification, especially when Poles also use this term for powiat. I   welcome, what You do on normalizing this usage, but look at all this. You deal from the point of view of Lithuanians, but not according to the point of view of any users. - Well perhaps Eastern Europeans do believe the idea about existing some international words. They actually do exist, but with different meanings in a specific language. For example, there are no any counts in the USA with counties still existing. So we should assume, that this world has different meaning, than '”count-y” presently. Your proposed normalizing  perhaps could be accepted in Lithuania, but I doubt if it will  affect English usage. We, Lithuanians may translate, how we want it, either Santa Clar'os grafystė or Santa Clar'os apskritis, but it doesn't concern English language wikipedia or English usage generally.  I think it's much better, to leave county with Lithuanian translation in the brackets than introduce new words 11:23, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC) 

 Well, in wikipedia powiat, voivodship is used, same for oblast, krai, gubernya, etc. So therefore apskritis also should be used, because it is a national term. Santa Klaros grafystė can be apygarda, but not apskritis. Apygarda is sometimes translated from county, but apskritis is generally used only as Lithuanian unit (maybe sometimes Estonian ""Maakond"" is tr