Subject: Re: Perloja, Lithuania<br/>
Date: Nov 08, 2004 @ 22:47<br/>
Author: P. Joost Lemmens (&quot;P. Joost Lemmens&quot; &lt;joostik@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1165306916">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;chris schulz&quot; &lt;23568@g...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Hi,<br/>
&gt; there was something similar in Lithuania, very simital time, at <br/>
 </span></blockquote>Perloja.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; They had their Republika Perloja for nearly 5 years as a special <br/>
 </span></blockquote>situation between the polish occupied Eastern part of Lithuania <br/>
around Vilnius and the &quot;free&quot; and independent Lithuania with at tis <br/>
time Kaunas as capital.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; I asked Jan about it, he confirmed, but until now i dont know a <br/>
 </span></blockquote>map, that shows Perloja.<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Regards, Chris<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>According to the travel guide &quot;Litauen&quot; by Günther Schäfer, after WW1 <br/>
(1918) the village found itself in the 20 km broad &quot;no-mans-land, <br/>
i.e. demilitarised or neutral zone&quot; between the newly-established <br/>
Lithuanian state and Polish Wilna (Vilnius). The village declared <br/>
itself a republic, proclaimed its own laws and had a defense force of <br/>
50 local farmers. After 1923 Lithuania and Poland agreed upon the <br/>
border (Wilna/Vilnius remaining Polish until WW2) and the &quot;republic&quot; <br/>
disappeared.</div>