Baltic Ways
Baltic Ways
FPRI Eurasia Program
Latvian-Lithuanian Connections from Morta to Modernity
21 minutes Posted Jul 26, 2023 at 3:56 pm.
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How have Latvian and Lithuanian histories intertwined over the last millennium? Who was Queen Morta, a Latvian princess by birth who became the wife of Lithuania's first and only king, Mindaugas? How close did we come to a Latvian-Lithuanian state in the early 20th century? How do Latvians and Lithuanians see their shared commonalities today? James Montgomery Baxenfield, Junior Research Fellow at Tallinn University School of Humanities, walks (literally) through this complex history.

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