Domain of King Mindaugas (dark yellow) during the times of the Kingdom of Lithuania, making up the initial Duchy of Lithuania.
Government
• Type
Feudal monarchy
Grand Duke of Lithuania
• ca. 1236–1263
Mindaugas
• 1295–1316
Vytenis
• 1316–1341
Gediminas
• 1345–1377
Algirdas
• 1377–1392
Jogaila
• 1392–1413
Vytautas
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Established
13th century
• Union of Horodło
1413
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Lithuania
Today part of
Belarus Lithuania Latvia
Kernavė, the heartland of Lithuania in the 11th–13th century
The Duchy of Lithuania (Latin: Ducatus Lithuaniae; Lithuanian: Lietuvos kunigaikštystė) was a state-territorial formation of ethnic Lithuanians that existed from the 13th century[1] to 1413. For most of its existence, it was a constituent part and a nucleus of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Other alternative names of the territorial formation, used in different periods, were Aukštaitija or Land of Lithuania (13th century), Duchy of Vilnius (14th – early 15th centuries),[2] Lithuania proper, or simply Lithuania (in a narrow sense).
^C. Rowell, Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-central Europe, 1295–1345
^"Viduramžių Lietuvos visuomenė" (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original on 2007-04-19. Retrieved 2007-05-02.
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