Lithuania

n. Republic of Lithuania, country in northern Europe on the Baltic Sea (was part of the former Soviet Union)

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in northern Europe. Situated along the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. Lithuania has been a member state of the European Union since 1 May, 2004.
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Noun
1. a republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea
(synonym) Republic of Lithuania, Lietuva
(hypernym) Baltic State, Baltic Republic
(member-meronym) Lithuanian
(part-meronym) Klaipeda, Memel

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Background Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation until September of 1991 (following the abortive coup in Moscow). The last Russian troops withdrew in 1993. Lithuania subsequently restructured its economy for integration into Western European institutions; it joined both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004. Map of Lithuania More about Lithuania: Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues

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