Voruta may have been a capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania established in the time of king Mindaugas in the 13th century. The exact location of Voruta is unknown and there are different contradictiory theories about it.

Voruta may have been either an actual city or just a misinterpretation of a word that means "capital"; historians are not sure.

Mindaugas, the first and the only crowned Lithuanian king defended himself in Voruta during an internal war in 1251.