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Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between insularity and territorial demands, focusing on whether island territories are more likely to support regionalist and secessionist parties. To address this question, we compare electoral support for such parties across island and mainland territories using a large‐N dataset.
Pau Torres, Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet
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From the Darkness of Prison into the Light of Freedom
Lietuvos Istorijos Studijos, 2022 Apie Antano Petrilionio disertaciją „Belaisviai Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės ir Vokiečių ordino karuose (XIV–XV amžiai)“ ir jos gynimą / On Antanas Petrilionis’ Thesis „Prisoners of War of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Order (14th–
Karolis Čižauskas
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The Appearance of the Hippocentaur in the Heraldry of the Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [PDF]
Lithuanian Historical Studies, 2012 The Centaur or Hippocentaur in the heraldry of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has been little investigated. This theme is a not yet fully exhausted granary of heraldic studies, which, due to the lack of primary sources, raises more questions than it has answers for scholars.
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Nasza Przeszłość, 2021 The article tackles the problem of the appointment of bishops in the dioceses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between 1544 and 1632, paying particular attention to income as a factor driving careers, Influencing the filling of bishoprics, and so-called ...
Wioletta Pawlikowska-Butterwick
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Multiscripturality in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: New Research Approaches [PDF]
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2019 The paper deals with the problem of using different languages of writing in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Among them there were: Latin, Polish, Ruthenian, Church Slavonic, Lithuanian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, written in five alphabets: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek.
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Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2017 About the tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth, “Kresy Wschodnie” and the role of Poland and Poles in the history of Belarusians and Lithuanians Several prominent historians and researchers of historical memory ...
Аляксандр [Aliaksandr] Смалянчук [Smalianchuk]
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On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Lietuvos istorijos studijos, 1996 The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by the Polish theorist of history, Feliks Koneczny ("Civilization is a method of arranging communal ...
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The General Confederation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1734–1736) [PDF]
Lithuanian Historical Studies, 2003 This article deals with the issue of the political alliance of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) – the activity of the General Confederation of the GDL between 1734 and 1736 focusing on issues which have not been researched properly up to now.
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015 Co-existence of languages in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the light of the works of Jan Karłowicz The article discusses the issues of the co-existence of languages in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the consequences of the
Elżbieta Koniusz
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