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Republic of Lithuania was a country in the Baltic region that existed during the interwar period, from 1918 to 1940. It was formed on 2 November 1918, following the reformation of the Kingdom of Lithuania into the republic at the end of the World War I. The country ceased to exist on 21 July 1940, when it was replaced by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, which was then incorporated into the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940. Until 1926, it was a parliamentary republic. Following the coup d'état, that took place on 17 December 1926, the country became the one-party dictatorship, under the rule of the Lithuanian Nationalist Union, with Antanas Smetona as its leader. Officially, the city of Vilnius, was claimed to be the capital of the state, however, as, for the most of the country's existence, the city remained under control of other states, the actual provisional capital existed in Kaunas. Vilnius functioned as the proper capital of Lithuania only from 1918 to 1919 and in 1920.
Republic of Lithuania Lietuvos Respublika | |||||||||||||
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1918–1940 | |||||||||||||
Coat of arms
(1920–1940) | |||||||||||||
Anthem: "Tautiška giesmė" (English: "The National Hymn") | |||||||||||||
Capital | Vilnius[lower-alpha 1] (de facto: 1918–1919, 1920; de jure: 1918–1940) Kaunas (de facto: 1918–1920, 1920–1940) | ||||||||||||
Official languages | Lithuanian | ||||||||||||
Regional languages | German (Klaipėda Region) | ||||||||||||
Religion (c. 1935) | Catholic Church (80.5%) Evangelicalism (9.5%) Judaism (7.3%) Others (4.4%) | ||||||||||||
Demonym(s) | Lithuanian | ||||||||||||
Government | Parliamentary republic (1918–1926) One-party dictatorship (1926–1940) | ||||||||||||
President | |||||||||||||
• 1919–1920 (first) | Antanas Smetona | ||||||||||||
• 1926 (last recognised internationally) | Antanas Smetona | ||||||||||||
• 1940 (last unrecognised internationally) | Justas Paleckis | ||||||||||||
Legislature | Seimas | ||||||||||||
Establishment | |||||||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period, World War II | ||||||||||||
16 February 1918 | |||||||||||||
• Suspension of monarchy and formation of the republic | 2 November 1918 | ||||||||||||
9 November 1918 | |||||||||||||
8 October 1920 | |||||||||||||
17 December 1926 | |||||||||||||
16 June 1940 | |||||||||||||
• Establishment of the Lithuanian SSR | 21 July 1940 | ||||||||||||
Area | |||||||||||||
1921 | 52,822 km2 (20,395 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
1923 | 55,670 km2 (21,490 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
1939 | 59,702 km2 (23,051 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||
• 1923 | 2 028 960 | ||||||||||||
• 1937 | 2 526 535 | ||||||||||||
Currency | German ostmark (1918–1922) Lithuanian litas (1922–1940) | ||||||||||||
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