#samogitia

[diemelusine]

Lyduvėnai Railway Bridge in Lithuania.

[unhonestlymirror]

Jug that once belonged to Samogitian bishop Motiejus Valančius (1801-1875).

[alephskoteinos]

For a while I thought the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the last country in Europe to convert to Christianity but it seems that Samogitia held out longer. Whereas the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was officially baptised in 1387, Samogitia did not officially convert until 1413, and even then Samogitia apparently had to be "baptised" again in 1417, and they may even have led one last armed revolt against Christianity in 1441.

[travelella]

Plateliai, Samogitia, Lithuania

Humphrey Muleba

[absurdiskas-brutalus-avangardas]

Duke Margiris defending Pilėnai against the Teutonic Order by Władysław Majeranowski (1817–1874) Not able to defend the fortress against the Teutonic Order, Margiris and other defenders decided to commit a mass suicide, burning the castle and leaving no loot for the enemy.This episode from the Lithuanian Crusade was popularized during the 19th-century wave of romantic nationalism and Margiris is treated as a national hero in Lithuania.

[quarkmaster]

Samogitia 1409

Join the Order, they said. It will be fun, they said! : ) New painting from my "Wolfpack-1863" world, let's say... origin story. Cheers!

Jakub Rozalski

[unhonestlymirror]

The Samogitian-Lithuanian primer, published in Lithuanian Cyrillic in Vilnius in 1864, contains the letter "ў" on the title page.

The letter "ў" has long been considered a symbol of the Belaruthian language and even has its own monument in Polatsk. However, historical sources indicate that this sign (along with the apostrophe as a separator) was developed and actively used to write the Lithuanian language in Cyrillic as early as the middle of the 19th century - a little earlier than it was established in the modern Belaruthian alphabet.

[unhonestlymirror]

Samogitian costume, Lithuania