Historical and ethnocultural region of Lithuania: Aukštaitija.

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Aukštaitija the historical area of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania includes the regions in the northeast of modern Lithuania and in the northwest of modern Belarus. The name can be translated verbatim as «upper ground», that is upstream of the river Neman. The capital of the region is the city of Utena.

Historically Aukštaitija had been correspondent to the Duchy of Lithuania up to the 13th century. Its initial capital most likely was Kernavė. In the treaty of Gediminas of 1322, Aukštaitija is named terra Eustoythen (land of Aukštaitians).

Some German sources also titled Grand Duke Gediminas, after whom the Gediminids dynasty is named after, as Rex de Owsteiten in English: King of Aukštaitija. Aukštaitija was mentioned as Austechia in Chronicon terrae Prussiae written around 1326. Politically, since the end of the 13th century, it comprised the Duchy of Vilnius/Lithuania and Duchy of Trakai, and perhaps was employed to refer to them both taken together. Since the 15th century, corresponding Trakai Voivodeship and Vilnius Voivodeship made up Aukštaitija, as a political and ethnically based unit, also known as Lithuania proper.