Lietuva vokiečių ir Prūsijos lietuvių erdvinėse sampratose

ENComparing to the concepts of Lithuania characteristic to the Romanov holdings, a large part of the Germans and the Lithuanians living in Germany in the 19th century understood its meaning in a very different sense. For them 'Lithuania' was the title, especially applied to the area in the northeastern part of East Prussia. The title began to be applied to part of the holdings belonging to the duke of Prussia in the 16th c. and was first of all used in priests' communication milieu, allowing them to define the area where "Lithuanian churches" had spread in Prussia. In the early 18th century, a new concept gradually supplemented the earlier one, and Lithuania in Prussia increasingly started meaning an area where the competencies of specific administrative offices in Gumbinnen were held valid. At the turn of the 18th-19th centuries, that area started being called the "Lithuanian Province", treating the latter not just as a part of East Prussia, but also as a unit equal to East Prussia. It was specifically this - the administrative title's - meaning of "Lithuania" that became widespread first in the body of knowledge of the German-language lands, and from them, throughout the rest of Europe. At least in the German-language discourse, this title was applied to name that part of Prussia much more often than the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania. [...]. [From the publication]

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