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Not Švitrigaila. In that case he is even less likely to keep the power.

the territory of the Teutonic knights and Lithuania looks like from 1404 year, save that in OTL LDK reached the Black sea to the East from Moldova, between Dniester and Dnieper.

There are not clear how Mindaugas was related to Gediminids. Mindaugas not be killed may meen that Gediminids never come to power.

Actually at the time a bubonic plaque didn't affected Lithuania.

He got baptised only when he fled to Moscow, so there are no evidence that he would do it if would stay in power.

AFAIK Pskov was allied with Moscow. More precisely Poland and Lithuania was in personal union. I know that some people don't see a difference, but still... This had more to do with Kasimir's ignorance of Lithuanian politics, than with war against Teutonic knights that ended in 1466 btw.

Under the Second Peace of Thorn Gediminids had annexed one part of Prussia and vassalized the rest and made peace with Teutonic knights. Lithuania was Christianized before.

Can you provide an example of an idea of identity that wasn't artificially created?

Not very good example. If my memory don't betray me there were only 24 Teutonic knights present (or 22)

The conflict with TO was more actual to the nobility of the Great Poland. There were the conflict with Lithuania over some Western Russian territories that was more actual to the Lesser Poland.

You know Jogaila and Vytautas actually died after Jadwiga had died and Sophia had married the Prince of Muscovy and there were no merger between Muscovy and Lithuania. :rolleyes:

There were very little the Church's lands, when compared with Western neighbours. In GDL there were even less the Church's lands. That made situation for all churches very similar, they were dependent on their noble patrons.

The problem with this is that you would not get what you assume. What you consider was in Poland, in Lithuania the situation was different. There magnates were dominating in 15-16th centuries and gradually losing power over 17th century, so development was in opposite direction than in Poland.

It looks like Vilnius general-governorship. It seems that before Napoleon's invasion there were considered some plans of reviving GDL, but they never got beyond this.

According the Declaration of the independence Lithuanian state was restored. Under Russian rule it was only in the tzar's title (they claimed the title the Grand duke of Lithuania).

Hussars had originated in Balkans. While they were some parallel to cossacks but hardly were connected. There were both hussars and cossacks as different types of cavalry in Polish army.

No, in Lithuania slavery was legal under the Statutes of Lithuania that was in use till 1840.

Maybe, even without quotation marks, if in 16th century they would get to Russia and would be hired as cossacks or would settle in some no-man-land among various outcasts and vagabonds in the Eastern Europe. In the 16th century both landsknechts and Russian cossacks looks rather similar in the...

It looks that landsknechts were undergoing an evolution that, given correct conditions, would make them some analogue of cossacks.

AFAIK there were agreement among Prussia, Russia and Austria to prevent election of both Frederick Augustus and Stanislaw Leszczynski. Frederick Augustus was able to strike deal with Russia (accepted von Biron as duke of Courland) and Austria (Frederick Augustus gave up any claims to Charles...