My Native Town Klaipėda

Klaipėda is the third city in Lithuania considering the number of population. Today it is the only seaport in Lithuania which maintains trade routes between this country and the rest of the world. Klaipėda is the only city that boasts beaches, the Maritime Museum & Aquarium. However, a very long time ago, it was very different from what it is now.
Our seaport is very old. In fact, it is older than the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius and even older than the country itself. The history of Klaipėda spans 800 years, from the mid thirteenth century. The strange thing is that Klaipėda which is viewed as being an inseparable part of Lithuanian culture today, has actually got old German roots. In the year 1252, the German Livonian Ordin built Memelburgh‘s Castle on the coast in the estuary of the river Danė. The region belonged to the Livonian Ordin then. If you studied the history of this city carefully, you would learn it has always been shaped by two different cultures: the Lithuanian and the German. The current name of the city comes from two Baltic words ‘klaips‘ which means ‘a loaf‘ and ‘ėda‘ which means ‘eats‘, ‘is eating‘ but the Germans called the city Memel.
It was in the year 1455 that the course of Klaipėda‘s history tied to Lithuanian culture forever — it was occupied by Samogitians.
In the Middle Ages, every once a while a very large dangerous fire (in other words, an inferno) would break out to destroy the bigger part of a city. This had happened to London and Klaipėda was no exception. There have been at least two large infernos (one in the sixteenth, another in the nineteenth century) in Klaipėda which burned down a lot of wooden buildings.
Throughout its existence, Klaipėda has suffered some severe occupations. It...

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