Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Nhoroondo yeLithuania inodzokera kunzvimbo dzakatangwa zviuru zvemakore apfuura, asi chinyorwa chekutanga chakanyorwa chezita renyika chinodzokera ku1009 AD. VaLithuania, mumwe wevanhu veBaltic, vakazokunda nyika dzakapoteredza ndokutanga Grand Duchy yeLithuania muzana ramakore rechi13 (uyewo Umambo hweLithuania hwakagara kwenguva pfupi). Grand Duchy yakanga iri nyika yehondo yakabudirira uye yakasimba. Rakaramba rakazvimiririra zvakasimba uye raiva rimwe rematunhu okupedzisira eEurope kugamuchira chiKristu (kutanga muzana remakore rechi14). Simba rinotyisa, rakava nyika huru zvikurusa muEurope muzana ramakore rechi 15 kupfurikidza nokukunda mapoka makuru evaSlav vokuMabvazuva vaigara muRuthenia. Muna 1385, Grand Duchy yakaumba mubatanidzwa weumambo nePoland kuburikidza neUnion yeKrewo. Gare gare, Union yeLublin (1569) yakaumba Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth yakagara kusvikira muna 1795, apo yekupedzisira yePartitions yePoland yakadzima zvose zviri zviviri Lithuania nePoland kubva pamepu yezvematongerwo enyika. Mushure mekuparadzwa, maLithuania akararama pasi pehutongi hweHumambo hweRussia kusvika muzana ramakore rechi20, kunyangwe paive nekumukira kwakakura, kunyanya muna 1830-1831 na1863.
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