English Explanatory Dictionary

Lithuania Minor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A historically Lithuanian-speaking ethnographic region of Eastern Europe, now politically mostly in the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia with small parts in Lithuania and Poland; now often taken to refer only to the rump portion in Lithuania.

Word forms

Lithuania Minor

Etymology

Calque of Lithuanian Mažoji Lietuva (“Little Lithuania”)

Synonyms

Prussian Lithuania
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