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The Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Konrad von Jungingen signed the Treaty of Salynas, the third attempt to cede Samogitia to the Knights.
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1398 treaty between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights
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Lithuanian ethnographic region
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