The largest state in 14th-century Europe, the Grand Duchy expanded from the Baltic to the Black Sea before entering a dynastic union with Poland and ultimately the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Entered the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a constituent state under the Union of Lublin on 1 July 1569, then partitioned out of existence along with the Commonwealth in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Grand Duchy of Lithuania — the shape you scrub through changes in 1236 · 1392 · 1569.
Covers the Jagiellonian union between Lithuania and Poland that shaped both polities.
The leading study of the Grand Duchy at its expansionist height as Europe's last pagan power.
Mickiewicz's national epic opens 'Lithuania, my homeland' and is steeped in nostalgia for the old Grand Duchy's noble culture, though its 1811-12 setting falls after the Duchy's 1795 partition; a deliberate bend for Lithuania's/Poland's defining epic.
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