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FORTY TATARS IN THE LITHUANIAN COUNTRYSIDE: ONE VILLAGE’S 600 YEARS OF ISLAMIC HISTORY  by Tharik Hussain, VILNIUS About twenty minutes’ drive south-west of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, just past the settlement of Pagiriai, a dusty tree-lined road heads west behind a little red Di

Contrary to many Western or Northern European countries, Islam was known in Lithuania since the Middle Ages. In contrast to the other European societies at that time Lithuania was known by high levels of ethnic diversity and relative religious tolerance and freedom. Lithuanian tatars