| Abstract [eng] |
The research is based on the investigation of the territorialisation process of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL further) in the 14th–16th centuries. For sake the completeness of the research, thecontent of concepts concerning territorial units formed from the 13th to the 16th century in the GDL and the concepts of sovereign’s domain, relationship between the political centre and the territory are clarified. The concepts of the GDL’s 14th–16th century west political boundaries, the state frontier and the mark in different languages sources; natural and human border marks are analyzed and explained. The research of boundaries in private landownership and their delimitation in the 15th–16th centuries draw main conclusions, which give some information concerning the genesis of the GDL’s state frontier concept. The development of the frontier between the GDL and the Teutonic Order in the 14th–16th centuries is analyzed ant the reconstruction of delimitation procedure – a case of the frontier between the GDL and the Teutonic Order – is given. Thesis examines the northeast frontier of the GDL with the Ruthenian principalities and Muscovy from in the 14th–16th centuries, what deals with the concept of principalities incorporation organized by Lithuanians and ambition of local nobility to preserve the “old” structure of territorial organization. The research concentrates and on the problem of the southeast frontier of the GDL “by the Black Sea” in the 14th–16th centuries: it gives a review of historical and geographical particularities of these territories, the concept of the “old” territorial structure and the “new” political frontiers between the GDL and the Ottoman Empire and their delimitation. The concept of the frontier between the GDL, Mazovia and Poland in 14th–16th centuries is also examined. Delimitation processes of these countries were presented in the negotiation on the Union of Lublin in 1569 context. A comparative analysis of the research results in the examination and comparison of the frontiers of GDL with neighbouring countries, what presents development of the concept of the territorialisation process of the GDL. |
