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Ursprungligen postat av Sarajevo
Vad har Litauen och Sverige haft för kontakter genom historien, har något av landen influerat varandra på något sätt i större utsträckning? Både Litauen och Sverige var ju stormakter som sedermera blev pyttestater i Europas hörn. Har det historiskt varit stort utbyte mellan länderna, eller mellan Litauen och Danmark?
Jag märker flera likheter med Litauen och Sverige, kanske beroende på geografiskt läge. Men människorna kan vara extremt lika. Särskilt här i Skåne finns det massor av människor som kunde tagits för litauer och tvärtom, litauerna har ibland ett väldigt nordiskt drag med blont hår osv, om de inte är slaviskt influerade, och skåningarna/sydsvenskarna i detta fallet har sådana litauiska näsor och kindben som litauer...Stora grova drag och skallar. Nog om raser.
Men också maten är ju väldigt likartad ibland. Cepelinai påminner om kroppkakor, och grisen verkar väldigt populär, precis som i Skåne där fläsket är det allra heligaste. Litauen känns när man tittar på det som en förlängning av Danmark som bara råkade fastna kvar i någonting som liknar till ur-indoeuropeiskan medan resten av de platta landskapen blev germanska.
Någon som sitter inne med lite kul länkar eller information i ämnet? Litauen har fascinerat mig en liten tid, på märkliga grunder!
Making The Baltic Union - The 1655 Federation Of Kedainiai Between Sweden And The Grand Duchy Of Lithuania,
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Book Summary of Making The Baltic Union - The 1655 Federation Of Kedainiai Between Sweden And The Grand Duchy Of Lithuania
During the general European crisis of the 17th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth broke down into a civil war fired by regional, social, political, linguistic and religious differences. Reacting to the rising dominance of Catholic Poland, the aristocratic faction of the Lithuanian secessionists, many of who were firm Protestants, revolted and sought an ally in Sweden, which was the strongest power in the Baltic Sea area. The Swedes for their part were eager to find allies in their effort to control the Eastern Baltic, but misjudged the sensitive situation. This alliance was formalized in the Union of Kedainiai 1655 and the crown of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was offered to the Swedish king. Swedish chances of incorporating Lithuania and Belarus into its realm floundered through military intervention, heavy-handed occupation, and disrespect for the local political traditions. This book is the first major study of the Swedish-Lithuanian alliance and combines Swedish, Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Russian and Ukrainian sources to give an all-round view of this complicated history. David Gaunt, Professor of history at the Sdertrns hgskola, Sweden
+ en present från mig: boken i PDF"In the Shadows of Poland and Russia: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid-17th century"
http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/reco...d=diva2:200752
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This book examines and analyses the Union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden signed in 1655 at Kėdainiai and the political crisis that followed. The union was a result of strong separatist dreams among the Lithuanian-Ruthenian Protestant elite led by the Radziwiłł family, and if implemented it would radically change the balance of power in the Baltic Sea region. The main legal point of the Union was the breach of Lithuanian federation with Poland and the establishment of a federation with Sweden. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania aspired to return to international relations as a self-governing subject. The Union meant a new Scandinavian alternative to Polish and Russian domination. The author places the events in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the general crisis that occurred in Europe in the middle of the 17th century characterized by a great number of wars, rebellions and civil wars from Portugal to Ukraine, and which builds the background to the crisis for Lithuania and Sweden. The research proved the importance of lesser powers in changing the geopolitical balance between the Great Powers. The conflict over Lithuania and Belarus was the main reason for the Swedish-Russian, Polish-Russian and Ukrainian-Russian wars. The failure of the Union with Sweden was caused by both internal and external factors. Internally, various ethnic, confessional and political groups within the nobility of Lithuania were split in favour of different foreign powers – from Muscovy to Transylvania. The external cause for the failure of the Union project was the failure of Swedish strategy. Sweden concentrated its activity to Poland, not to Lithuania. After the Union, Swedish authorities treated the Grand Duchy as an invaded country, not an equal. The Swedish administration introduced heavy taxation and was unable to control the brutality of the army. As a result Sweden was defeated in both Lithuania and Poland. Among the different economic, political and religious explanations of the general crisis, the case of Lithuania shows the importance of the political conflicts. For the separatists of Lithuania the main motive to turn against Poland and to promote alliance with Sweden, Russia or the Cossacks was the inability of Poland to shield the Grand Duchy from a Russian invasion.The Lithuanian case was a provincial rebellion led by the native nobility against their monarch, based on tradition of the previous independence and statehood period. It was not nationalism in its modern meaning, but instead a crisis of identity in the form of a conflict between Patria and Central Power. However, the cost of being a part of Sweden or Muscovy was greater than the benefit of political protection. Therefore, the pro-Polish orientation prevailed when Poland after 1658 recovered its military ability the local nobility regrouped around Warsaw. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania managed to remain on the political map of Europe, but at the price of general religious Catholization and cultural Polonization. After the crisis, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania gradually changed into a deep province of the Polish state.
