Lithuania Minor

Lithuania Minor is the land of the Baltics, Northern Prussians, and ???. Its territory to the east from the Deimena River was part of King Mindaugas’es State of Lithuania. In the latter part of the 15th century, Lithuania Minor was seized by the Order of the Germans (Crusaders). They called their state Prussia. Now, it is ruled by three states. What was the Klaipėda region from 1923 (except from 1939-1944) is a part of the Republic of Lithuania. The Galdapės district, together with a southern part East Prussia, in 1945, fell into the hands of Poland. The main part of Lithuania Minor, the Koenigsberg region, has been managed by Russia since 1946. In the eastern part of the Koenigsberg Region, For a long time, , in the18 century (till 1710-1732, the Great Germanization), Lithuanians made up 90% of the population in the eastern part of the Koenigsberg Region which belonged to the State of Lithuania. For these reasons, this Prussian territory, in state documents (until the end of the 19th century) was considered Lithuania.
In the 16th century, the Koenigsberg region became the home of the first Prussian and Lithuanian books and Lithuanian language aids. In the Koenigsberg region, in 1547, the first Lithuanian book was put out. It was M. Mažvydas’es The Katechism. In 1590, a priest in Lithuania Minor, J. Bretkūnas, finished a Lithuanian translation of the whole Bible. To the Lithuanian people, this territory was where Lithuanian literature’s classic poet, Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714-1780) grew up.
On November 30, 1918, the Council of Lithuania Minor declared its union to the State of Lithuania by the Tilžės Act. In the same way, in 1919, by the Versailles Peace Treaty, only the northern part-Klaipėda-was separated from the Eastern Prussian territory ruled by the German empire (Ethnic Baltic territories). In 1945, the participants of the Potsdam Conference, conquerors of Germany, ,by agreement, temporarily left the Koenigsberg region to the Soviet Union, (not Russia), which commissioned Russia to be in charge of this region. The Soviet Union, violating international law, carried out genocide of the elderly in the Koenigsberg region (Lithuanians and Germans with Prussian origin), Russianized, and militarized this Baltic land. Lithuanian and Prussian titles of places and bodies of water were changed to Russian titles.
The great nations in the Potsdam conference left the responsibility of solving the crisis of the Koenigsberg region to a future peace conference. The Republic of Lithuania, as European heir and guard of the values of Baltic culture, hopes that this conference will take into consideration these interests.

Council for the Affairs of Lithuania Minor

Council for the Affairs of Lithuania Minor (CALM) is a public civil organization formed according to the principle of competence. Striving for a survival of Lithuania Minor (LM) in the national consciousness of Lithuanians, CALM collects and provides information on LM and presents urgent problems of LM to the Seym and the Government of Republic of Lithuania. CALM pays most attention to Konigsberg Region as the most important part of LM. From October 1994, CALM has a registered office situated at Jakšto Street No. 9, Room 203, Vilnius (Phone/Fax No.: 62-46-46, e-mail: mlrt@takas.lt).
A precursor of CALM was the Commission on Genocide and Cultural Heritage of Lithuania Minor established by the Supreme Soviet (later - the Seym) of Lithuania on December 18, 1989. At the proposal of the Seym Committee on Public Education, Science and Culture, SALM was registered on June 23, 1993 as an independent non-governmental organization. From 1989 the Chairman of CALM is LM connoisseur Vytautas Šilas (the Deputy Chairmen are A.Matulevičius and P.Cidzikas).
As early as on November 11, 1989 the precursor of CALM formed the list of problems of paramount importance related to the cultural heritage of the region as well as care about Lithuanians residing in Konigsberg Region (such as Vydūnas Memorial Museum in Tilžė monuments to M.Mažvydas, J.Bretkūnas, L.Rėza; an establishment of Lithuanian kindergartens and schools). In 1993, CALM prepared the Memorandum on the Policy Related to Konigsberg Region (not published in press) and submitted it to the Seym and the Government of Republic of Lithuania and in 1994 - the project of the conception on the policy of the Lithuanian state in Konigsberg Region. In order to discuss the problem of a legal status of Konigsberg Region, CALM arranged the conference "Potsdam and Lithuania" (Vilnius, 1995) and in 1996 published the collection of reports "Potsdam and Konigsberg Region" (with summaries in English, German and Russian). CALM attained a declaration of the 30th of November to be the Tilžė Act Remembrance Day (the Day of Unity of Lithuania Major with Lithuania Minor, 1918) from 1998 according to a decision of the Seym of Republic of Lithuania and the National Commission on Lithuanian Language passed a decision on an usage of the traditional (i.e. Lithuanian) place-names of Kaliningrad Region in written or verbal information.
CALM cared about a repeated publication of the destroyed work of P.Kushner on the Lithuanian ethnic past of Konigsberg Region (in Russian). Thirteen members of CALM wrote articles for the Volume I of the Encyclopaedia of Lithuania Minor published in the end of 2000.
Recently, CALM makes efforts to celebrate annually the 16th of October - the Day of the Soviet Genocide Against Lithuania Minor, to arise the problem of the total demilitarization of Konigsberg Region on the international scale. In autumn 2001, CALM has arranged international conference "The Unsettled Problems of Konigsberg Region"

International Conference Concerning the Unsolved Problems of the Region of Karaliaučiaus
Conference resolutions
Genocides in Lithuania Minor
Future of the Karaliaučius region should be with Lithuania
Maps of administrative territorys, ref. administrative centers