Voters were asked the question: "Are you in favour of the Lithuanian state being an independent, democratic republic?"

The young men in the parliament have taken an oath of allegiance to the Lithuanian state, swearing to defend it to the death.

It was a de facto recognition of the Lithuanian state.

In this sense the battle bought time for the new Lithuanian state to mature, strengthen, and expand before facing full-scale crusade.

Second World War put an end to independent Polish and Lithuanian states.

A 20th-century historian charged him with the "destruction of the organization of the Lithuanian state".

In their view, the Lithuanian state would be formed based not on ethnicity, but on citizenship.

The other nephew, Lengvenis, played a role in Lithuanian state in 1242-1260.

The party immediately declared that a primary goal was the creation of "an independent democratic Lithuanian state."

He was an advocate of the democratic republic as the form of the Lithuanian state.