lithuania. it is a country in northern europe lithuania has an estimated population of 3.2 million...

Lithuania

It is a country in northern Europe

Lithuania has an estimated population of 3.2 million as of 2011, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius

Lithuania has an estimated number of 3.2 million population (according to data from 2003) and Vilnius is not only the capital but also the country's largest city

It is situated along the south eastern shore of the Baltic

Sea

Lithuania has a border with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south west and Russian enclave (Kaliningrad Oblast) to the south west.

The Lithuanians are Baltic people and the official language - Lithuanian is one out of only two living languages (together with Latvian) in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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hello-sveikigood morning-labas RytasGood afternoon-laba DienaGood evening-labas vakarasHow are you-kaip sekasiGood bye-viso gero

Currency - Lithuanian litas (Lt)

The president of Lithuania is Dalia Grybauskaite. She has been chosen In direct elections for a period of five years in office The main responsibilities of the president are foreign policy and security. The unicameral parliamentof Lithuania – Seimas has 141 members.

cottage cheese and maschrooms.

The traditional speciality of Lithuanian cuisine is cold soup (chłodnik) but on the menu there should also be meals made of potatoes such as pancakes and zeppelins, a kind of dumplings stuffed with meat, cottage cheese and mushrooms.

Divinations are important element of Lithuanian Christmas Eve. They can be used to predict the weather and the summer harvest .The most popular divination which is used these days is taking straw blades out from the tablecloth. Even number of them means early marriage, long and egual blades mean prosperous and long life, broken blades–failure.

Christmas Eve , Or kuczios it’s a name of Eve, on the border with Balarus names diffrent kutia, propably came form Word kutia, Or popular West dishes – composits cooks by wheat with poppy seeds, honey, peanuts, almonds and raisins.

Lithuanian Christmas Eve is called kuczios (kutia) Another meaning for Kutia is a dish composed of wheat, poppy seeds, honey, peanuts, almonds and raisins.

It is still a common tradituon in most Lithuanian houses at Easter to paint eggs.

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Przygotowały:Krystyna KrodkopadMartyna Nowicka

Opieka nauczycielska:Paulina Ćwiek