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Amber Declaration (Lithuanian: Gintarinė deklaracija), also known as Lithuanian Declaration, is a document signed by the representatives of Lithuanian fellowship in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire, on 7 August 1914, which sought to unify Lutheran Lithuania Minor and Catholic Lithuania Proper into a single autonomous state under the Russian rule. It was officially ratified on 17 August 1914. The Declaration also emphasized the unique Baltic identity of the Lithuanian nation as well as its old tradition of statehood. The authors of the Declaration are Jonas Basanavičius, Stasys Šilingas and Donatas Malinauskas.

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  • Amber Declaration (Lithuanian: Gintarinė deklaracija), also known as Lithuanian Declaration, is a document signed by the representatives of Lithuanian fellowship in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire, on 7 August 1914, which sought to unify Lutheran Lithuania Minor and Catholic Lithuania Proper into a single autonomous state under the Russian rule. It was officially ratified on 17 August 1914. The Declaration also emphasized the unique Baltic identity of the Lithuanian nation as well as its old tradition of statehood. The authors of the Declaration are Jonas Basanavičius, Stasys Šilingas and Donatas Malinauskas. The Declaration is named after the proclamation that compared ethnic Lithuania to an amber necklace, which was torn apart due to Germany's historical Drang nach Osten. (en)
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  • 1914-08-07 (xsd:date)
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  • 1914-08-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Amber Declaration (en)
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  • To unify Lithuania Minor and Lithuania Proper and to establish autonomy under the Russian Empire (en)
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  • Amber Declaration (Lithuanian: Gintarinė deklaracija), also known as Lithuanian Declaration, is a document signed by the representatives of Lithuanian fellowship in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire, on 7 August 1914, which sought to unify Lutheran Lithuania Minor and Catholic Lithuania Proper into a single autonomous state under the Russian rule. It was officially ratified on 17 August 1914. The Declaration also emphasized the unique Baltic identity of the Lithuanian nation as well as its old tradition of statehood. The authors of the Declaration are Jonas Basanavičius, Stasys Šilingas and Donatas Malinauskas. (en)
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  • Amber Declaration (en)
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