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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AHUK</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-4095</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-4095</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">25_034-061_POCYTE</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/ahuk.v25i0.312</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Klaipėdos krašto istorijos daugiakalbiškumas ir konfesinio paveldo senosiose kapinėse specifika Lietuvos kontekste | Multilingualism of the History of Klaipėda Region and Specificity of the Confessional Heritage in the Old Cemeteries …</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pocytė</surname>
            <given-names>Silva</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:silva.pocyte@ku.lt">silva.pocyte@ku.lt</email>
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          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
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        <aff id="j_AHUK_aff_000">Klaipėda University</aff>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>25</volume>
      <fpage>34</fpage>
      <lpage>61</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>03</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>03</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2012</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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        <p>The article reviews the historical causes of multilingualism in Klaipėda Region and the reflection of language combinations in the objects of confessional heritage, mainly in the epitaphs recorded in the Old Lutheran cemeteries of Klaipėda Region. The specificity of the confessional heritage in the context of Lithuania is disclosed by comparing some specific characteristics of the Old cemetery (the tradition of cross erection, the use of languages in epitaphs) to the Old cemetery artefacts in other Lithuanian regions.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>cemeteries of Klaipėda Region</kwd>
        <kwd>tombstones</kwd>
        <kwd>epitaphs</kwd>
        <kwd>bilingualism</kwd>
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