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February 15, 2017: Julius Pranevičius, then Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in New York, with Andrew Kapochunas and his wife, Aileen Bassis, at the opening of Andrew's exhibition: "300+ Years of Lithuania on Maps, 1552-1862," at the Lithuanian Consulate in New York. On April 10, 2026, Julius Pranevičius became Lithuania's new Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations in New York City, replacing Rytis Paulauskas, who became the Republic of Li

https://lietuvoskartografija.lt/lithuanianmaps/index.php/my-articles-about-maps-and-stamps-of-lithuania/ As I prepare for the inevitable shutting down of the static website LithuanianMaps.com (in 2027?) and for its successor site: https://lietuvoskartografija.lt/lithuanianmaps/ to be the sole location of the 4,300+ map images and text I created from 2008-21, I want to make certain that all the articles I have written, all the map-related presentations I have given, and

Detail, 1891 Rand McNally "Europe" map, showing locations of three towns to be searched. https://www.loc.gov/ I've been helping people for over a decade to find their ancestral Eastern European villages, focusing on the area of historical Lithuania. Either they just wanted to know where their village was, or they wanted an image of their town on an antique map for use on a village-specific website. But after recent Zoom presentations to JewishGen’s LitvakSIG group and the St

"Loss of Forests in Lithuania: 2015-25" ( Miškų nykimas Lietuvoje: 2015–2025 m.) Jelena Vaitkevičienė The Lithuanian Cartographic Society is pleased to congratulate Jelena Vaitkevičienė, winner of the 2025 Andrew Kapochunas Prize for Environmental Issues Map. She submitted a set of maps depicting deforestation in Lithuania. The maps show which locations and administrative units have seen the greatest decline in forest areas from 2015 to 2025. ( Lietuvos kartografų draugija d