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El palacio de los Grandes Duques de Lituania es un palacio en Vilna, Lituania, construido originalmente en el siglo XV por los gobernantes del Gran Ducado de Lituania y los futuros reyes de Polonia. El palacio, ubicado en el castillo inferior del complejo de castillos de Vilna, evolucionó con el tiempo y prosperó durante el siglo ...
Pressed by the crusading Teutonic and Livonian Knights, the Lithuanian tribes united under Mindaugas (d. 1263) and formed a strong, cohesive grand duchy during the reign of Gediminas (reigned 1316–41), who extended their frontiers across the upper Dvina River in the northeast to the Dnieper River in the southeast and to the Pripet Marshes in the...
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Mindaugas (Polish: Mendog, (Latin: Mindowe, Old East Slavic: Мендог, romanized: Mendog, Belarusian: Міндоўг, romanized: Mindowh; c. 1203–September 12, 1263) was the first known grand duke of Lithuania and the only crowned king of Lithuania.
John II Casimir Vasa (Polish: Jan II Kazimierz Waza; Lithuanian: Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660.
Particularly characteristic to the historiography of the interwar period, GLD Vytautas was endowed with the epithet of the Grand Duke, since during his rule the boundaries of the State of Lithuania have reached the greatest extent – from the Baltic Sea in the West to the Black Sea in the Southeast.
Other monarchs of Lithuania were referred to as grand dukes, kings or emperors in extant foreign written sources as the size of the realm and their power expanded or contracted. This practice can be compared to that of British, Japanese and many other monarchs who are known as kings or emperors in spite of not being crowned with the assent of the Pope.
Traidenis (Polish: Trojden; Belarusian: Трайдзень; died 1282) was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1269 or 1270 until 1282. He is the second most prominent grand duke of Lithuania in the 13th century after Mindaugas.
