Lithuanian Civil War

Lithuanian Civil War can refer to several events in Lithuania:

  • Lithuanian Civil War (1249–1253), between Mindaugas and Vykintas with Tautvilas; see History of Lithuania (1219–1295)#Rise of Mindaugas
  • Lithuanian Civil War (1263–1264), after assassination of Mindaugas; see History of Lithuania (1219–1295)#Years of instability
  • Lithuanian Civil War (1381–1384) between Jogaila and his uncle Kęstutis with son Vytautas
  • Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392) between Jogaila and his cousin Vytautas
  • Lithuanian Civil War (1431–1435) between Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis
  • Civil war in Lithuania (1700) between several powerful magnate families

Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil and/or war:

    “... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
    —Tony Benn (b. 1925)