Artūras Dubonis (born July 23, 1962 in
Vilnius
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) is a
Lithuania
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n historian and
Doctor of Humanities who works at the
Lithuanian Institute of History.
His main research interests are:
Lithuanian Metrica
The Lithuanian Metrica or the Metrica of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (, , or ''Lietuvos didžiosios kunigaikštystės metrika''; , or ''Metryka Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego''; , ) is a collection of the 14–18th-century legal documents of t ...
research and publishing, Lithuanian history sources, Lithuanian society in the 13th–16th centuries, Lithuanian foreign policy in the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century.
Dubonis is known for criticism of
Litvinism and Litvinistic theories by Belarusian historians such as
Mikola Yermalovich and which he describes as having nothing in common with the science of
history
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
. Dubonis also denies that
Novogrudok
Novogrudok or Navahrudak (; ; , ; ) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Novogrudok District. As of 2025, it has a population of 27,624.
In the Middle Ages, the city was ruled by King Mindaugas' son V ...
was once the capital of Lithuania and describes this theory as "parasitic in Belarusian historiography" and "allegedly scientific".
References
1962 births
Living people
20th-century Lithuanian historians
Vilnius University alumni
21st-century Lithuanian historians
Lithuanian male writers
People from Vilnius
20th-century Lithuanian male writers
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