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Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

Variant of Lithuania

Lithuania definition

Lithua·nia (lit̸h′o̵̅o̅ ā′nē ə, lit̸h′ə wā′-)

country in N Europe, on the Baltic Sea: from 1940 to 1991 it was a republic of the U.S.S.R.: 25,170 sq mi (65,190 sq km); pop. 3,675,000; cap. Vilnius: formerly, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

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