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Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)

The fascinating history of a Baltic empireâ€™s dominance and declineâ€”excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Daviesâ€™s Vanished Kingdoms

Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies tells the ill-fated story of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Founded in the mid-thirteenth century in one of the continentâ€™s first settled regions, where the oldest of its Indo-European languages is spoken, the Grand Duchy at its peak was the largest country in Europe, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and it commanded yet greater influence after uniting with its western neighbor, the Kingdom of Poland, to form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Grand Duchyâ€™s huge territory included the great cities of Kiev, Vilnius, Riga, Minsk, and Brest. Despite being ahead of its time as an elective republic in an age of absolute monarchy, power struggles and foreign incursions led to its ultimate demise and forced partition by Russia, Prussia, and Austria in 1795.

In this selection from a work The Boston Globe has called â€œcommendably accessible, magisterial, and uncommonly humane,â€ Davies chronicles these rich yet unfamiliar chapters in the history of modern Lithuania, Belarus, and Latvia with his signature acuity and verve.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-02-19
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781101630822

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-02-19
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781101630822

Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)

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