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Notwithstanding the above, Lithuania was a kingdom under Mindaugas I, who was crowned by authority of Pope Innocent IV in 1253. Gediminas and Vytautas the Great also assumed the title of King, although uncrowned. A failed attempt was made in 1918 to revive the Kingdom under a German Prince, [[Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach]], who would have reigned as Mindaugas II of Lithuania.
==The differences in the concept of understanding historical past==
There is also a belarusian historic view exist, which claims that due to systematic aggressions of Moscow Dutchy under the pretext of "release", as with the rise of Zhamoytiya gentlefolks after Grunwald in 1410, there was a change in the understanding of Lithuanian concept happened, which cause renaming Litva (Lithuania) lands to Belarus, and Zhamoytia (Samogitia) to Lithuania.
This version based on the idea that core and the receiver is a principality of Grand Duchy of Lithuania is modern Belarus.
Apologist of this version is the belarusian historian [[Mikola Ermolovich]] (Мікола Ермаловіч), who written book with appropriately name "Belarusian State the Grand Duchy of Lithuania". <ref>http://adverbum.org/ermalovich4</ref>
This version is based on the next arguments:
- There is no [[Mindouh]] (Mindaugas) evidence captured that Novogrudok was conquered by war.
- In the annals of birth indicated the proximity of the dynasty of Lithuanian princes of Polotsk Ragvolodovichy dynasty
- Lithuanian [[statutes|Statutes_of_Lithuania]] were published only in [[Ruthenian]] language, never in Samogitian Curonian dialect (which is the basis of modern Lithuanian language)
- The dominant culture and population was obviously Ruthenian (in the modern sense Belarussian, Ukrainian)
- None of the annals mention ending of the Lithuanian knighs with -us ending (f.e. Mindaugas), thats only use by historics in Lietuva.
- It should be noted that this opinion is unfounded since the [[census in the Russian Empire in 1897|Russian_Empire_Census]], the show superiority of belarusian ethnic group in the Vilna province, as well as numerous cartographic sources.
The researchers of this version are also [[Alexander Krautcevich]] (Аляксандр Краўцэвіч), [[Ihar Litvin]] (Игорь Литвин), [[Norman Davis]] (Норман Девіс), [[Timothy Snyder|Timothy_D._Snyder]] Цімаці Снайдер.
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