Litvin
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Litvin literally means Lithuanian person
in several Slavic languages
. The term may also refer to:
Persons:
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
in several Slavic languages
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
. The term may also refer to:
- LitvinLitvinLitvin literally means Lithuanian person in several Slavic languages. The term may also refer to:* Litvins, in historical context, Slavic people who identified themselves with the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
s, in historical context, Slavic people who identified themselves with the former Grand Duchy of LithuaniaGrand Duchy of LithuaniaThe Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th /13th century until 1569 and then as a constituent part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791 when Constitution of May 3, 1791 abolished it in favor of unitary state. It was founded by the Lithuanians, one of the polytheistic... - Litvyn (Ukraine), modern ethnographic groups of Ukrainians in Chernihiv OblastChernihiv OblastChernihiv Oblast is an oblast of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv.-Geography:The total area of the province is around 31,900 km²....
, on the border with Belarus and Russia
Persons:
- Michalon Litvin, a variant name for Michalon the Lithuanian, a chronicler
- Natasha Litvin(a)Natasha SpenderNatasha Spender, Lady Spender was an English pianist and author. She was the wife of the writer Sir Stephen Spender....
- Serghei Litvin ManoliuSerghei Litvin ManoliuSerghei Litvin Manoliu is an artist, writer and blogger and the founder of the International Fair of 21st-Century Drawing. He was born in Bucharest in 1953. His four grandparents were of four different nationalities: Polish, Romanian, Russian and German. He currently lives between Paris and New...
, an artist, writer and blogger - Volodymyr LytvynVolodymyr LytvynVolodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn is a Ukrainian politician and the current Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously served in that position from 2002 until 2006, he was re-elected in December 2008 after his party agreed to join the former coalition of Yulia...
, a Ukrainian politician
See also
- Litvak (disambiguation)
- Litwin