Forests in Lithuania information

Forests in Lithuania cover approximately one third of Lithuania's territory. Of these, around half are publicly owned, and one third are privately owned;...

longest Nemunas. Lithuania is home to two terrestrial ecoregions: Central European mixed forests and Sarmatic mixed forests. Forest has long been one...

and birch forests. Ash and oak are very scarce. The forests are rich in mushrooms and berries, as well as a variety of plants. Lithuania has a humid...

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alternatively as the "Forest Brothers", the "Brothers of the Wood" and the "Forest Friars" (Estonian: metsavennad, Latvian: mežabrāļi, Lithuanian: žaliukai), these...

The Sarmatic mixed forests constitute an ecoregion within the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature...

moraine-dominated in the north, and uplands to the south along the Carpathian mountains. To the north is the Sarmatic mixed forests ecoregion, the forests of which...

of Lithuanians took to the forests in the countryside as a refuge. These spontaneous groups became more organized and centralized culminating in the...

This is a list of the native woody plant species of Lithuania. The most common trees, shrubs, subshrubs, and liana species are marked with a star (*)...

The national flag of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos vėliava) consists of a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green, and red. It was adopted on 25 April...

polytheism; they also occur in locations such as India, Japan (sacred shrine forests), and West Africa and Ethiopia (church forests). Examples of sacred groves...

settlements. In the 8th millennium BC, the climate became much warmer, and forests developed. The inhabitants of what is now Lithuania then traveled...

Labanoras Forest (Lithuanian: Labanoro giria) also the Labanoras–Pabradė Forest (Lithuanian: Labanoro–Pabradės giria), is the second-largest forest in Lithuania...

(Vilnia and Neris), surrounded by hills, impenetrable forests, and wetlands. In the 14th century, Lithuania was frequently invaded by the Teutonic Order. The...

Belarusian Forest (Lithuanian: Gudų giria) is the largest forest in Lithuania. It as a primeval forest in Dzūkija region (also known as Dainava) in southern...

remainder. Old growth forests are relatively rare in Lithuania, numbering about 100. Data collected in 1998 suggested that these forests occupied about 580 km2...

The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total eradication of Lithuanian (Litvaks) and Polish Jews[a] in Generalbezirk Litauen of the Reichskommissariat...

Lithuania Minor (Lithuanian: Mažoji Lietuva; German: Kleinlitauen; Polish: Litwa Mniejsza; Russian: Ма́лая Литва́), or Prussian Lithuania (Lithuanian:...

Culture of Lithuania combines an indigenous heritage, represented by the unique Lithuanian language, with Nordic cultural aspects and Christian traditions...

The June Uprising (Lithuanian: Birželio sukilimas) was a brief period of the history of Lithuania in late June 1941 between the first Soviet and the Nazi...

The Kingdom of Lithuania was a sovereign state that existed from the 17 July 1251 until the death of the first crowned king of Lithuania, Mindaugas, on...

names) is a city and lake resort in Lithuania. It lies 28 kilometres (17 miles) west of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania or just 7 kilometres (4 miles)...

(/ˈkaʊnəs/; Lithuanian: [ˈkɐʊˑnɐs] ; previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius...