Act of Tilsit

The Act of Tilsit (Lithuanian: Tilžės aktas) was an act signed by 24 members of the National Council of Lithuania Minor on 30 November 1918 in Tilsit. The signatories demanded the unification of Lithuania Minor and Lithuania Proper into a single Lithuanian state. This would mean detaching the northern areas of East Prussia, inhabited by Prussian Lithuanians, from the German Empire. Virtually unknown in interwar Lithuania, the act has since become a symbol of Lithuanian claims to Lithuania Minor.

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