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2016.08.12 08:24
How Lithuanians became descendants of Ancient Romans
The arrival of Palemon to Lithuania, by Teofil Żychowicz, Lviv 1852, The National Library of Poland
History is a powerful tool and sixteenth-century Lithuanian noble houses were only too happy to ground their contemporary power in a historical myth which traced their ancestry to Ancient Rome.
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