Romuva, Lithuania's neo-pagan tradition, has attracted thousands of followers since the country broke free from the crumbling Soviet Union in 1990. Petras Malukas, AFP.

Lithuania has an extensive history of paganism. In fact, Lithuania was the last pagan state in Europe. Almost 1,000 years after the official conversion of the Roman Empire facilitated the gradual ...

Dancing around a blazing fire with garlands of wildflowers in their hair, members of Lithuania's Romuva neo-pagan community mark the summer solstice, as the Baltic state undergoes a revival of its ...

However, this state of affairs could not continue indefinitely. As the last pagan state of Europe, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania could not be regarded as an equal by the Christian sovereigns of Europe.

Another legend says that in the early 1300s, the hill served as a platform for a wooden castle manned by the pagan barons of Samogitia, once a state in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.In 1348 ...

Pagan-Christian trade networks supplied ... Studies on the remains of horses found at ancient burial sites in Russia and Lithuania show that they were brought overseas from Scandinavia ...

Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees. In mid-January, the snow made the little coastal town of Šventoji in north-west Lithuania ...