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 ==Immigration into Lithuania==
+I*n the 14th century, the '''Grand Duchy of Lithuania''' was the largest country in Europe; present-day '''Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia''' were all lands of the Grand Duchy.
+*With the Union of Lublin of 1569, Lithuania and Poland formed a voluntary two-state personal union, the '''Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth'''. The Commonwealth lasted more than two centuries, until neighboring countries dismantled it in 1772–1795, '''with the Russian Empire annexing most of Lithuania's territory'''.
+*As World War I ended, Lithuania's Act of Independence was signed on 16 February 1918, founding the '''modern Republic of Lithuania'''.
+*In World War II, Lithuania was '''occupied first by the Soviet Union and then by Nazi Germany'''.
+*Towards the end of the war in 1944, when the Germans were retreating, the Soviet Union reoccupied Lithuania. Lithuanian armed resistance to the Soviet occupation lasted until the early 1950s.
+*On 11 March 1990, a year before the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lithuania passed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, becoming the first Soviet republic to proclaim its independence.
 ==Emigration From Lithuania==
 *Lithuanian diaspora: the majority of post-WWII Lithuanians live in North America '''(Canada and the United States)''' and across Europe '''(France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Netherlands and England)''', but are scattered across '''Russia and the former USSR''', and smaller numbers in '''Mexico and Brazil'''.