List Of Hillforts In Lithuania
Below it the list of hillforts in Lithuania. The first three volumes of the atlas of Lithuanian hillforts (''Lietuvos piliakalniai. Atlasas'', eds. Z. Baubonis ir G. Zabiela, Vilnius, 2005, vol. I–III) contained 829 entries. The 4th volume (2017) contained additional 92 entries. Most of the latter ones were identified after 2005, but some of the sites were known earlier, and only recently they were classified as hillforts. At the end of vol. 4 there is a list of hillforts grouped by districts and municipalities. only 184 of them were excavated to various extents. "Hillfort" is ''piliakalnis'' in Lithianian. The word literally means "castle mound" and refers to wooden castles that stood on tops of these mounds. Since 14th century, with the appearance of brick and stone castles, the wooden ones were abandoned and decayed, and today the root "pilis" in "piliakalnis" refers to a castle only etymologically. In modern times, about one and half thousand places are called ''piliaka ...
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