klasyki: Tatars in Lithuania

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Tatar population in Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos totoriai) is an ethnic group living in the Republic of Lithuania historical lands of Lithuania. The Tatars are considered one of the oldest ethnic minorities in Lithuania.

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The Politicization of an Ethnic Minority: The Case of the Polish Minority in Lithuania. The politicization of ethnic minority is a common phenomenon despite the fact that its manifestation may differ in different contexts. The configuration of the factors that have an impact on the politicization of ethnic minorities varies in different countries as well. For the case of the Poles in Lithuania the main factors are the following: the policy of the Lithuanian state restricting the use of the Polish language in schools, the EU membership of the Lithuanian Republic and the policy of Warsaw in terms of protecting the Polish minority in the neighbour state, as well as the existence of the similar…

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The Lipka Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group and minority in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century. The first Tatar settlers tried to preserve their Pagan tradition and sought asylum amongst the Baltic pagans. Towards the end of the 14th century, another wave of Tatars—this time, Islamized Turkic populations, were invited into the Grand Duchy by Vytautas the Great. These Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas, later spreading to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. These areas comprise parts of present-day Belar…