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Amber Declaration

Amber Declaration, also known as Lithuanian Declaration, is a document signed by the representatives of Lithuanian fellowship in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire, on 7 August 1914, which sought to unify Lutheran Lithuania Minor and Catholic Lithuania Proper into a single autonomous state under the Russian rule. It was officially ratified on 17 August 1914. The Declaration also emphasized the unique Baltic identity of the Lithuanian nation as well as its old tradition of statehood. The authors of the Declaration are Jonas Basanavičius, Stasys Šilingas and Donatas Malinauskas.