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See The World: Lithuania

Published in Lithuania - Social interactions and entertainment - 22 Mar 2017 10:47 - 7

This is my 7-th article under the project SEE THE WORLD about Lithuania. Special thanks to XerTaLT for help!!!

Something about XerTaLT: I am 23 year old male living in Lithuania, working for average salary, just having fun in virtual worlds and real life and not thinking about tomorow. Playing games like this from early 2009, so I can guarantee everyone, that this is the last game for me. My hobbye is films and music. In game I am a Grand Duke (CP) of Lithuania, I do everything I fight, I write, I coordinate damge, but soon i will be going for a twoclick mercenary mode.

Lithuania

Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe.One of the three Baltic states, it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated lation of 2.9 million people as of 2015, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Lithuanians are a Baltic people. The official language, Lithuanian, along with Latvian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

Flag of Lithuania
The flag of Lithuania consists of a horizontal tricolor of yellow, green and red. It was re-adopted on March 20, 1989, almost two years before the re-establishment of Lithuania's independence and more than three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It was first used in Lithuania's first period of independence (in the 20th century) from 1918 to 1940, which ceased with the occupation first by Soviet Russia and Lithuania's illegal annexation into the Soviet Union, and then by Nazi Germany (1941–44). During the post-World War II Soviet occupation, from 1945 until 1989, the Soviet Lithuanian flag consisted first of a generic red Soviet flagwith the name of the republic, then changed to the red flag with white and green bars at the bottom. The last alteration to the current flag occurred in 2004 when the aspect ratio changed from 1:2 to 3:5.

Coat of arms of Lithuania
The coat of arms of Lithuania, consisting of an armour-clad knight on horseback holding a sword and shield. It is one of very few containing symbolism adopted from ducal portrait seals rather than from coats of arms of dynasties, which is the case for most European countries.
Article 15 of the Constitution of Lithuania, approved by national referendum in 1992, stipulates, "The Coat of Arms of the State shall be a white Vytis on a red field". Heraldic shield features the fieldGules (red) with an armoured knight on a horse salient Argent (white). The knight is holding in his dexter hand a sword Argent above his head. A shield Azure hangs on the sinister shoulder of the knight with a double cross Or (yellow) on it. The horse saddle, straps, and belts are Azure. The hilt of the sword and the fastening of the sheath, the stirrups, the curb bits of the bridle, the horseshoes, as well as the decoration of the harness, are Or (gold).