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The Lithuanian Tatar community is the oldest ethnic group living in Lithuania, having settled in the country when it was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. They have had a profound influence on Lithuania’s history, language and food.
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Galina Miškinienė, the chairwoman of the Vilnius district Tatar community, is one of few Lithuania Tatars who still speaks her ancestral tongue and researches their remaining written legacy in Lithuania and she is also a doctor at the Vilnius University philological faculty teaching the Turkish

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