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{{Infobox former country
|conventional_long_name = Grand Duchy o Lithuanie
|common_name = Lithuane
|continent              = Europe
|status                 = State union
|status_text            = Pairt o the [[Polish–Lithuanie Commonweel]] <small>(1569–1795)</small>
|life_span              = {{circa}} 1236–1795<sup>1</sup>
|government_type        = {{plainlist|
*[[Hereditary monarchy]] (1230–1572)
*[[Elective monarchy]] (1572–1795)}}
|event_start            = Consolidation began
|year_start             = 1180s
|event_end              = [[Third Parteetion o Poland|Third Parteetion]]
|date_end               = 24 October
|year_end               = 1795
|event1                 = [[Kinrick o Lithuanie]]
|date_event1            = 1251–1263
|event2                 = [[Union o Krewo]]
|date_event2            = 14 August 1385
|event3                 = [[Union o Lublin]]
|date_event3            = 1 Julie 1569
|s1                     = Kinrick o Proushie
|flag_s1                = Flag of the Kingdom of Prussia (1750-1801).svg
|s2                     = Roushie Empire
|flag_s2                = Flag of Russia.svg
|image_coat             = Coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.svg
|symbol                 = Pahonia
|symbol_type            = Coat o airms
|image_map              = Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1430.png
|image_map_caption      = The Grand Duchy o Lithuanie at the hicht o its pouer in the 15t century, superimponed on modern borders
|capital                = {{plainlist|
*''[[Voruta]]'' (hypothetical; 13th century)
*[[Kernavė]] <small>(after 1279 – before 1321)</small>
*[[Senieji Trakai|Trakai]] <small>(c. 1321–1323)</small>
*[[Vilnius]] <small>(since 1323)</small>}}
|common_languages       = [[Lithuanie leid|Lithuanie]], [[Ruthenian leid|Ruthenian]], [[Pols leid|Pols]], [[Laitin]], [[German leid|German]] (see {{format link|#Leids}})
|religion               = {{plainlist|
*[[Lithuanie meethology|Paganism]]
*[[Eastren Orthodox Kirk|Eastren Orthodox]]
*[[Catholic Kirk|Roman Catholicism]]}}
|currency               = 
|leader1                = [[Mindaugas]] <small>(first)</small>
|leader2                = [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]] <small>(last)</small>
|year_leader1           = 1236–1263 (frae 1251 as [[Kinrick o Lithuanie|Keeng]])
|year_leader2           = 1764–1795
|title_leader           = [[Leet o rulers o Lithuanie|Grand Duke]]
|
|legislature            = [[Seimas o the Grand Duchy o Lithuanie|Seimas]]
|house1                 = [[Lithuanie Cooncil o Lairds|Cooncil o Lairds]]
|type_house1            = Privy Cooncil
|
<!-- Area and population of a given year -->
|stat_year1             = 1260
|stat_area1             = 200000
|stat_pop1              = 400000
|stat_year2             = 1430
|stat_area2             = 930000
|stat_pop2              = 2500000
|stat_year3             = 1572
|stat_area3             = 320000
|stat_pop3              = 1710000
|stat_year4             = 1791
|stat_area4             = 250000
|stat_pop4              = 2500000
|stat_year5             = 1793
|stat_area5             = 132000
|stat_pop5              = 1800000
|footnotes              = 1. Unsuccessfu [[Constitution o Mey 3, 1791]] enveesioned a unitary state whaurbi the Grand Duchy would be abolished.
|today                  = {{plainlist|
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*{{LVA}}
*{{LTU}}
*{{MDA}}
*{{POL}}
*{{RUS}}
*{{UKR}}}}
}}
The '''Grand Duchy o Lithuanie''' wis a European state frae the 13t century<ref name="Baranauskas">{{cite web|last=Baranauskas|first=Tomas|url=http://viduramziu.istorija.net/valstybe.htm|title=Lietuvos valstybės ištakos|trans-title=The Lithuanian State|language=lt|publisher=viduramziu.istorija.net|location=Vilnius|year=2000|accessdate=20 July 2016|archive-date=2016-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160929234205/http://viduramziu.istorija.net/valstybe.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> till 1795.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sužiedėlis|first=Saulius|title=Historical dictionary of Lithuania|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Md.|isbn=978-0-8108-4914-3|page=119|edition=2nd}}</ref> The state wis foondit bi the [[Lithuanies]], ane o the [[Lithuanie meethology|polytheistic]] [[Baltic tribes]] frae [[Aukštaitija]].<ref>Rowell S.C. ''Lithuania Ascending: A pagan empire within east-central Europe, 1295-1345''. Cambridge, 1994. p.289-290</ref><ref>Ch. Allmand, ''The New Cambridge Medieval History''. Cambridge, 1998, p. 731.</ref><ref>Encyclopædia Britannica. [https://www.britannica.com/place/grand-duchy-of-Lithuania Grand Duchy of Lithuania]</ref>

[[Image:Magnus_ducatus_Lithuania,_1780.jpg|thumb|center|500px|Magnus Ducatus Lithuania, Tobias Lotter, 1780]]

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