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or simply Lithuanians (Lithuanian: Lietuw(i)ni(n)kai, German: Litauer). Local self-designating terms found in literature, such as Sziszionißkiai ("people from here"), Burai (German: Bauern), were neither politonyms nor ethnonyms. Another similar term appeared in the Klaipeda Region (Memelland) during the interwar years - Memellanders (Lithuanian: Klaipediskiai, German: Memelländer). Modern Lithuanian historiography uses the term Lietuvininkai or sometimes a neologism

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