marco_polito
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1) Klaipeda (formerly Memel)
until 1568: Polish-Lithuania
until 1629: Polish
until 1635: Sweden
until 1757: Poland
until 1762: Russia
until 1795: Poland
until 1807: Russia:
from 1807 Prussia: Memel becomes the capital
until 1918
German Reich
from 1918 Lithuania
1919-1923 French administration under the League of
Nations
until 1939 Lithuania
until 1945 Germany (Well, in 1939 Germany pressures Lithuania
to give up Klaipeda and Hitler personally visits the city to proclaim its
re-incorporation into the German Reich = Lithuania, but occupied by the German
Reich.)
until 1991 (Soviet Union)
Lithuania, but occupied by the Soviet
Union
since 1991 (Free) Lithuania
Jan
Vilnius, Lietuva