Lithuania

Lithuania is a country in Europe. It is a member of the European Union and NATO. 
== About ==
Lithuania is one of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 3 million as of 2013, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Lithuanians are part of the Baltic people. The official language, Lithuanian, and Latvian are the only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
== History ==
===Before partition of Poland ===
For centuries, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, the Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, the King of Lithuania, and the first unified Lithuanian state, the Kingdom of Lithuania, was created on 6 July 1253. During the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe; present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia were the territories of the Grand Duchy. With the Lublin Union of 1569, Lithuania and Poland formed a voluntary two-state union, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Commonwealth lasted more than two centuries, until neighboring countries systematically dismantled it from 1772–95, with the Russian Empire annexing most of Lithuania's territory.
===Independence ===
As World War I neared its end, Lithuania's Act of Independence was signed on 16 February 1918, declaring the establishment of a sovereign State of Lithuania. Starting in 1940, Lithuania was occupied first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany. As World War II neared its end in 1944 and the Germans retreated, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania. On 11 March 1990, a year before formal break-up of the Soviet Union, Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare itself independent, resulting in the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania.
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==  Mappers from Lithuania ==
Lithuania by mappers is on the third place.
*GanDaiMe11
* Flyincaty
* Lietuvis Mapper
* Rovsan Musaibov Mapping
* Lithuanian Mapper
* Kaik TV
* TNlsg
* Gurfis
* RyderMappingHD
* Slender Char
* Psyhius
* Lithuanian Mapper
*Ignulis mapping
*Jon521
*RProductions
*Lithuanian mapper
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*Baltic Mapper
*Lith Mapping
*Craft0Video
*Ingo Mapping
*SuperMind1337
*Geron Mapping
*Gerrard Mapping
*Litauen Mapper
*LithMapper
*United Kari Mapping
*Slavko03
* NTR Mapping
==Future==
===MrNTRDude===
NTR thinks that Lithuania will return its glory back. Not as big as it was before. But It will be bigger than it is right now.
===Ceplio ===
Lithuania unites with Estonia, Latvia and Belarus to make Kirarica.
=== Stelionas747 ===
Lithuania unites with Latvia and Estonia.
=== Adolf Hitler Rovsan Musaibov Mapping ===
Lithuania's government becomes a Nazi Regime
=== Zarexian Mapper ===
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