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This webpage reproduces an appendix in


The Story of Lithuania
By Thomas G. Chase

printed by
Stratford House, Inc.
New York,
1946

The text is in the public domain.

This page has been carefully proofread
and I believe it to be free of errors.
If you find a mistake though,
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 p363  Maps

The Areas Inhabited by the Aistians
in the Early 13th Century

[A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 45 to 60, East longitudes 15 to 40. The map shows much of the Baltic Sea in the upper left and a bit of the Black Sea at the bottom with the entire Sea of Azov, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Warsaw, Moscow, Helsinki, Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. A small patch in the upper left area of the map, bordering on the Baltic, is marked as being inhabited by the Aistians and their three main subdivisions.]
1. ⊙ Capital cities (1939).
2. ○ Cities with population of 500,000 or more (1939).
3. ○ Other important cities (1939).
4. – – – Areas inhabited by the Aistians in the thirteenth century. A small group, known as the Galindians, had been isolated by the Slavs in the district of modern Kaluga.
5. - · - · - Approximate boundaries between the Lithuanians, the Letts, and the Old Prussians.

 p364  The Kingdom of Lithuania
under Mindaugas (c. 1226‑1263)

A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 45 to 60, East longitudes 15 to 40. The map shows much of the Baltic Sea in the upper left and a bit of the Black Sea at the bottom with the entire Sea of Azov, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Warsaw, Moscow, Helsinki, Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. A small patch in the upper left area of the map, bordering on the Baltic, is marked as being inhabited by the Aistians and their three main subdivisions.
1. ⊙ Capital cities (1939).
2. ○ Cities with population of 500,000 or more (1939).
3. ○ Other important cities (1939).
4. – – – Lithuania united under Mindaugas.
5. - · - · - Areas inhabited by the Aistian family.

 p365  The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
under Gediminas (1316‑1341) and Algirdas (1345‑1377)

A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 45 to 60, East longitudes 15 to 40. The map shows much of the Baltic Sea in the upper left and a bit of the Black Sea at the bottom with the entire Sea of Azov, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Warsaw, Moscow, Helsinki, Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. zzz
1. ⊙ Capital cities (1939).
2. ○ Cities with population of 500,000 or more (1939).
3. ○ Other important cities (1939).
4. – – – Boundaries of the Lithuanian state under Gediminas.
5. - · - · - Boundaries of the Lithuanian state under Algirdas.

 p366  The Grand Duchy of Lithuania
under Vytautas the Great (1392‑1430)

A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 45 to 60, East longitudes 15 to 40. The map shows much of the Baltic Sea in the upper left and a bit of the Black Sea at the bottom with the entire Sea of Azov, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Warsaw, Moscow, Helsinki, Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. zzz
1. ⊙ Capital cities (1939).
2. ○ Cities with population of 500,000 or more (1939).
3. ○ Other important cities (1939).
4. – – – Boundaries of the Lithuanian state under Vytautas.
5. –•–•– Kingdom of Poland under Jogaila (1386‑1432).

 p367  Lithuania and Poland at the Union of Lublin in 1569

A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 45 to 60, East longitudes 15 to 40. The map shows much of the Baltic Sea in the upper left and a bit of the Black Sea at the bottom with the entire Sea of Azov, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn, Warsaw, Moscow, Helsinki, Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. zzz
1. ⊙ Capital cities (1939).
2. •••–– Territories lost by Lithuania to Poland in 1569.
3. •••••• Livonian areas which became the condominium of Lithuania and Poland in 1569.
4. – – – Lithuania after the Union of Lublin.
5. –•–•– Poland after the Union of Lublin.

[To make the map clearer,
I've shaded the Lithuanian cession to Poland (area 2)
and the Livonian condominium (area 3).]

 p368  The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1569‑1772

A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 51 to 59, East longitudes 22 to 34. The map shows a bit of the Baltic Sea in the upper left, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania occupies most of the map, with Livonia in its entirety in the upper left corner, and bits of Prussia, Poland and Russia counter­clockwise along the edges. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn. zzz
1. Boundaries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1569‑1772.
2. Eastern boundary of the Smolensk territory recovered by Lithuania in 1618 and lost in 1634.
3. Northern boundaries of the Lithuanian-Polish condominium in Latvia and Estonia.
4. Boundaries of the nine palatinates or provinces of Lithuania as they existed from 1566 to 1772.

[To make the map clearer,
I've shaded the Smolensk territory (area 2)
and the Livonian condominium (area 3: the lighter part was lost at the truce of Altmark).]

 p369  The Partitions of Lithuania

A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 51 to 59, East longitudes 22 to 34. The map shows a bit of the Baltic Sea in the upper left, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania occupies most of the map, with Livonia in its entirety in the upper left corner, and bits of Prussia, Poland and Russia counter­clockwise along the edges. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn. zzz
1. Boundaries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before the first partitions in 1772.
2. Livonian territories which remained a Lithuanian-Polish condominium after the truce of Altmark (1629).
3. Eastern boundaries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the second partitions of the Lithuanian-Polish Republic in 1793. The rest of Lithuania was occupied by Russia in 1795; Prussia obtained only the small area west of the Nemunas River with the town of Suvalkai — however, after the Congress of Vienna (1815) this area was also annexed by Russia.
4. Eastern boundaries of the Grand Duchy after the first partitions of the Lithuanian-Polish Republic in 1772.
[decorative delimiter]

This last map below is not in the body of the book, but on the front and back end­papers. For clarity, I've shaded the territory of Lithuania. (And endpapers being what they are, a narrow strip of map spans the spine of the book from top to bottom, creased and impossible to scan well: I had to perform surgery there to get a decent result, but still leaving behind it some very slight missing or spurious detail; notice also — most clearly, at the very bottom at 24° longitude — that there's a bit of a zag up from the left to the right.) A much larger and fully readable version opens here in another window (1.9 MB).

 (endpaper)  The Republic of Lithuania

A summary map of an area of Eastern Europe roughly bounded by North latitudes 51 to 59, East longitudes 22 to 34. The map shows a bit of the Baltic Sea in the upper left, and the major rivers, chief among them the Dnipro and its tributaries. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania occupies most of the map, with Livonia in its entirety in the upper left corner, and bits of Prussia, Poland and Russia counter­clockwise along the edges. Also shown are about two dozen of the larger towns, and the capital cities (1939) Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn. zzz
1. Boundaries of Republic as established by treaties with Russia (1920), with Latvia (1921), and with the Allies (Treaty of Paris, 1924).
2. Eastern boundary of Lithuania after Soviet intervention in 1939 and 1940, recognized only by Russia.
3. Western boundary of Lithuania Minor separated from Germany by the Potsdam Conference, July, 1945.
4. Western boundary of the Vilnius territory occupied by the Poles in 1991; northern boundary of the Klaipeda territory seized by the Germans in 1939.

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