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Lithuania Minor

Lithuania Minor proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Lithuania Minor

  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.
    Synonyms:
    Prussian Lithuania

Synonyms of Lithuania Minor

  • Prussian Lithuania

Origin of Lithuania Minor

Calque of Lithuanian Mažoji Lietuva (“Little Lithuania”)

Questions about Lithuania Minor

What does Lithuania Minor mean?
Lithuania Minor means 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.
What part of speech is Lithuania Minor?
Lithuania Minor is a proper noun.

Words near Lithuania Minor in the dictionary

  1. liths
  2. lithsexual
  3. lithsman
  4. lithsmen
  5. Lithuania
  6. Lithuania Minor
  7. Lithuanian
  8. Lithuanian Hound
  9. Lithuanian Hounds
  10. Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
  11. Lithuanian SSR

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