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    17th and 19th centuries, it was a suburb of Vilnius and called Lukiškės. The wooden Lukiškės mosque of the Lithuanian Tatars and their graveyard were prominent...
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    Лукішкі) was a prison in the center of Vilnius, Lithuania, near the Lukiškės Square. Until the late 19th century the main form of punishment in Russian-held...
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    Palace on one end and at the Cathedral Square and Vilnius Castle Complex on the other, passing Lukiškės Square. It connects the Old Town with Žvėrynas...
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  • Lukiškės (also spelled Łukiszki, Lukiski, Lukishki) can refer to several things: Lukiškės, Vilnius [lt], a historic neighborhood of Vilnius known for...
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    Catholic church in Vilnius' Old Town, near the Lukiškės Square. It is famous for the Mother of God of Lukiškės painting. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    death. On 22 March 1864, at the age 26, he was publicly executed on Lukiškės Square in Vilnius. Kalinowski's remains, along with those of others, were...
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    Church of St. Philip and St. Jacob, near Lukiškės Square, has the painting of the Mother of God of Lukiškės which has reportedly attracted miracles. The...
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    destroyed and the St. Casimir's Fair was moved to the Łukiszki Square (Lukiškės Square). In modern times, fairs and festivities are regularly held at...
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    The museum is located in the former KGB headquarters across from the Lukiškės Square and is informally referred to as the KGB Museum. The museum is dedicated...
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  • regime included were captured, interrogated in the NKVD Palace in Lukiškės Square, executed and buried in the Tuskulėnai Manor park. The Soviets decided...
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    ever". On 7 October 1939, a rally of 75,000 people was held in the Lukiškės Square which demanded to attach the Vilnius Region to the Byelorussian SSR...
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  • 1960–1990 – now Lielā iela, Jelgava Lenino aikšte (Lenin Square), 1952–1991 – now Lukiškės Square, Vilnius Lenino prospektas (Lenin Avenue), ?–1989 – now...
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    houses in Vilnius (so-called colonies, most notable Lukiškės/Montvila colony near Lukiškės Square) Povilas Pakarklis (1902–1955), Lithuanian historian...
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  • Square, Tbilisi, Georgia Independence Square, Gyumri, Armenia Independence Square, Minsk, Belarus Lukiškės Square, Vilnius, Lithuania Republic Square...
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    Cathedral Square. In 1901, after a monument to Catherine the Great was unveiled in the Cathedral Square, the fair was moved to Lukiškės Square. During the...
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    Uhlan Regiment, whose existence began in December 1918 in Vilnius' Lukiškės Square, from where they were led to combat by the brothers Władysław and Jerzy...
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    Street, leased out from 1921 for 36 years, and a single plot on the Lukiškės Square, also leased. In the first year of World War I, the monks engaged in...
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    March 1912, a project by Czesław Przybylski [pl] was selected, and Lukiškės Square was selected as a location of theater. Independently, Hipolit Korwin-Milewski [pl]...
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    Beatričė Grincevičiūtė House Museum State Small Theatre of Vilnius Lukiškės Square Interactive Fountains Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights The...
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    came to nothing. On June 27, 1863, Zygmunt Sierakowski was hanged in Lukiškės Square in Vilnius. His body was secretly buried on Gediminas' Hill (his remains...
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    March 1864, at the age 26, Kastus Kalinowski was publicly executed on Lukiškės Square in Vilnius. Historian Zita Medišauskienė wrote that Belarusian press...
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  • school moved to the newly constructed dedicated building opposite of Lukiškės Square (present-day Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre on Gediminas Avenue)...
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    new building was located on the present-day Gediminas Avenue facing Lukiškės Square. It was purchased for $18,000 (equivalent to $423,671 in 2023) which...
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    and 1947 by the NKGB and MGB in the Vilnius' KGB Palace prison near Lukiškės Square (now Museum of Genocide Victims). The remains from the mass grave were...
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  • across the world of the statue of Lenin being torn down in Vilnius's Lukiškės Square in 1991. Recutting it in reverse, Narkevičius showed a jubilant crowd...
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    Iwye. There was a Lipka Tatar settlement in Vilnius, known as Totorių Lukiškės, Tatar quarter in Trakai and in Minsk, today's capital of Belarus, known...
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    the north-west the city was bordered by some 10-hectare rural area named Lukiškės [lt] (pol. Łukiszki), which hosted few isolated hamlets. Earlier drawings...
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    production had started. Some filming for the fourth season took place at Lukiškės Prison and nearby in Vilnius, Lithuania. In March 2020, production was...
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    20 September 1940, Begin was arrested by the NKVD and detained in the Lukiškės Prison. In later years he wrote about his experience of being tortured...
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  • near Vientiane Samkhe Prison, near Vientiane Abu Salim prison, Tripoli Lukiškės Prison, Vilnius Kaunas Prison, Kaunas Antanimora Prison, Antananarivo Farafangana...
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