Central Lithuania

Central Lithuania may refer to:

  • Republic of Central Lithuania, a short-lived Poland-dependent puppet state created in 1920 in the Vilnius Region
  • Geographical region of Lithuania, the central region in Lithuania around Kaunas, Kėdainiai, and Jonava

Famous quotes containing the word central:

    “Et in Arcadia ego.
    [I too am in Arcadia.]”
    —Anonymous, Anonymous.

    Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)