Lithuanians in a sentence

This is the specificity of Lithuanians,” Boguslavas Gruževskis, the head of the Lithuanian Social Research Centre, told a discussion organised by the International Organisation for Migration.

When we talk about purchasing power – how much we can buy, especially when shopping in Poland – Lithuanians have a higher purchasing power," Mauricas explained.

Nevertheless, SEB bank Communications Project head Jovita Bazevičiūtė states that the bank, while not gathering statistics on foreign currency home loans to Lithuanians in emigration, much interest in these loans has not emerged.

The Polish communist elite had tried to discuss historical questions with Moscow for years, especially in relation to the Katyn massacre; fortunately, for the Lithuanians, they did not mention Vilnius.

Lithuanians are our most frequent guests.

According to the Eurobarometer survey conducted in 2012, 80% of Lithuanians can speak Russian and 38% can speak English.

Along with the campaigns against the Lithuanians, the knights faced a vengeful Poland and legal threats from the Papacy.

A lower number of other Europeans and North Americans migrated to the country in the late 19th and early twentieth centuries and, in smaller numbers, Poles, Lithuanians, English, Irish, and Croats during and after the Second World War.

Because enslavement of non-Christians was seen as acceptable at the time and the subdued native Prussians demanded land or payment, the Knights often used captured pagan Lithuanians for forced labor.

Because of their common heritage, Lithuanians, Poles, and Ashkenazi Jews share many dishes and beverages.

Considerably more ethnic Lithuanians died after World War II than during it.

Especially since Lithuania's admission into the European Union, large numbers of Lithuanians (up to 20% of the population) have moved abroad in search of better economic opportunities to create a significant demographic problem for the small country.

From the view of historical truth Lithuanians also should use this term, šlėkta (szlachta), to name own nobility, but Lithuanian linguists forbade the usage of this Polish loanword.

However, even after the country was officially converted, the crusades continued up until the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, when the Lithuanians and Poles, helped by the Tatars, Moldovans and the Czechs, defeated the Teutonic knights.

Kęstutis heroically fought for the survival of ethnic Lithuanians by attempting to repel about thirty incursions by the Teutonic Knights and their European guest fighters.

Later Lithuanians would be "the people of the shore".

Latin characters replaced the Cyrillic alphabet that had been forced upon Lithuanians for four decades.

Lithuanians did not organize armed resistance, still considering Soviet Union their primary enemy.

Lithuanians joined the Tautinio Darbo Apsaugos Batalionas (TDA) and Schutzmannschaft police battalions in hopes that these police units would be later transformed into the regular army of independent Lithuania.

Lithuanians quickly formed their first government, adopted a provisional constitution, and started organizing basic administrative structures.