Image: 1501. Roman Catholic churches within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where the priests must know the Lithuanian language

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Description: The Grand Duke of Lithuania, Aleksandras Gediminaitis, specified that the Roman Catholic priests in these 28 churches must know the Lithuanian language, according to his letter of 18 September 1501, which was addressed to the Bishop of Vilnius Albertas.
Title: 1501. Roman Catholic churches within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where the priests must know the Lithuanian language
Credit: Own work - The map is based on Aleksandras Gediminaitis' letter to the Bishop of Vilnius Albertas on 18 September 1501, which can be found as letter 507 on pages 616-617 in the "Codex diplomaticus Ecclesiae cathedralis necnon Dioeceseos Vilnensis" ['Diplomatic Code of the Vilnius Cathedral and Diocese' in English]. Volume 1. Issue 3 (1501-1507, supplements 1394-1500). Published in Cracow in 1948. [1]
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