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Mikołaj the Black (1515 65), son of Jan Mikołaj, was marshal of Lithuania from 1544, chancellor of Lithuania from 1550, and palatine of Wilno from 1551.

"They are disappointed," Jackson explains of those in Lithuania, from which Romanov has fled to Russia.

NATO's new contingency plans involve Polish soldiers defending Lithuania from a (theoretical) Russian attack.

The high birth rate distinguishes Lithuania from its Baltic neighbours, which have struggled to offset the aging of their populations.

He ruled the duchy of Lithuania from 1544 and became king of Poland after his father's death in April 1548.

Both the Lithuanian S.S.R. and its successor, the Republic of Lithuania (from 1991), designated Lithuanian the nation's official language.

When Russia invaded the area (beginning the Livonian War, 1558 83) in an effort to prevent Poland-Lithuania from gaining dominance over it, the Livonian Knights were unable to defend themselves.

When Lithuania broke from the Kremlin in 1990, the Soviets shut the oil pipeline to Mazeikiu, leaving Lithuanians to ponder freedom in unheated splendor.

Under her watch, Lithuania rebounded from a severe depression brought on by the 2008 financial crisis and is now striving to meet eurozone entry criteria by 2015.

Mikolaj Radziwill, who died in 1565, is viewed as a Lithuanian patriot, although Poles have more mixed feelings about his efforts to peel Lithuania away from Poland.

Lithuania rallied from an 18-point second-half deficit to beat Spain, 76-73, Tuesday in a game in Izmir, Turkey, between the two Group D favorites at the basketball world championships.