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Lithuania is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia to the south by Lithuania to the east by the Russian Federation and to the southeast by Belarus Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Lithuania covers 64,589 km2 and it has a temperate seasonal climate. The Lithuanians are Baltic people culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Lithuanian language having many similarities with Lithuanian, but not with the Estonian language. Today the Lithuanian and Lithuanian languages are the only surviving members of the Baltic languages of the Indo-European family. The modern name of Lithuania is thought to originate from the ancient Lithuanian name Latvji, which, like the name of Lithuania, may have originated from the river named Latuva
The territory of Lithuania has been populated since 9000 BC, after the Ice Age glaciers retreated. Around the beginning of the third millennium BC (3000 BC) the proto-Baltic ancestors of the Lithuanian people settled on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. The Balts established trade routes to Rome and Byzantium, trading local amber for precious metals. By 900 AD, four distinct Baltic tribes inhabited Lithuania: Couronians, Latgallians, Selonians, Semigallians (in Lithuanian: kuri, latgali, seli and zemgali), as well as the Livonians (libiei) speaking a Finno-Ugric language.