The city of Vilnius, the capital and largest city of Lithuania, has an extensive history starting from the Stone Age. The city has changed hands many...
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demographic history of Vilnius goes back to the times after the Last Glacial Period some 12 thousand years ago. In the eldership of Vilkpėdė, remnants of a Magdalenian...
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city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and its surrounding region has a long history. The Vilnius Region has been part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
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Vilnius is the historic and present-day capital of Lithuania. Records of demographic measures go back to 1766, though the city itself has existed much...
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Vilnius (/ˈvɪlniəs/ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ), previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and...
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Vilnius County (Lithuanian: Vilniaus apskritis) is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius...
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Vilnius University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well...
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The Vilnius Group was an organization of NATO aspirant countries, created in May 2000, aimed at practical cooperation, exchange of information and lobbying...
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Lithuania District (redirect from Vilnius Government Precinct)
Verwaltungsbezirk Litauen) was an administrative division of German-controlled territory of Ober-Ost during World War I. It was bordered by the Bialystok-Grodno...
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following is a timeline of the history of the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. 1323 Gediminas relocates Lithuanian capital to Vilnius from Trakai. Castle on...
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Vilnius Region[a] is the territory in present-day Lithuania and Belarus that was originally inhabited by ethnic Baltic tribes and was a part of Lithuania...
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Vilnius Castle Complex (Lithuanian: Vilniaus pilių kompleksas or Vilniaus pilys) is a group of cultural, and historic structures on the left bank of the...
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The coat of arms of Vilnius is the coat of arms of the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is also used as coat of arms of Vilnius city municipality. The modern...
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The Vilnius city wall (Lithuanian: Vilniaus miesto gynybinė siena) was a defensive wall around Vilnius, capital city of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It...
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January Events (redirect from Vilnius massacre)
January was the most violent day of the month in Lithuania. The events were primarily centered in the capital city Vilnius, but Soviet military activity...
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Vilna Governorate (redirect from Vilnius Guberniya)
reported strikingly different numbers: Ethnic history of the Vilnius region History of Vilnius Wilno Voivodeship Vileyka Voblast Russian: Ви́ленская губе́рния...
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The Vilnius conflict (1920–1939) was a conflict between Poland and Lithuania over Vilnius and the Vilnius region. The conflict was mainly diplomatic and...
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Old Town of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Vilniaus senamiestis), one of the largest surviving medieval old towns in Northern Europe, has an area of 3.59 square...
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Vilnius International Airport (IATA: VNO, ICAO: EYVI) (Lithuanian: Vilniaus oro uostas) is the airport of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It is located...
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Anthony, John, and Eustathius (redirect from Eustace of Vilnius)
Eustachijus; Martyrs of Vilnius, Russian: Виленские мученики, Lithuanian: Vilniaus kankiniai) are saints and martyrs (died 1347) of the Russian Orthodox...
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Abram Petrovich Gannibal (redirect from Dark star of the Enlightenment)
was baptized in 1705, in St. Paraskeva Church in Vilnius, with Peter as his godfather. The date of Gannibal’s baptism held personal significance; he...
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Vilna Ghetto (redirect from Vilnius Ghetto)
and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland...
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The Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus of Vilnius (also known as Vilnius Cathedral; Lithuanian: Vilniaus Šv. Stanislovo ir Šv. Vladislovo...
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The Vilnius letter was a declaration of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq from the nations of the Vilnius Group. It was published at the height of the...
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Iron Wolf (character) (category History of Vilnius)
from a medieval legend of the founding of Vilnius, the capital city of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania and modern Republic of Lithuania. First found...
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In the history of Lithuania, the Vilnius Conference (Lithuanian: Vilniaus konferencija) or Vilnius National Conference met on 18–22 September 1917, and...
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Wilno school massacre (redirect from Vilnius school massacre)
Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). During the final exams, at about 11 a.m., at least two eighth-grade students attacked the board of examiners with...
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siege of Vilnius occurred in 1390 from 11 September to 7 October. The forces of Grand Duke Vytautas, assisted by the Teutonic Order, besieged Vilnius which...
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Vilno-Dvinsk offensive (redirect from Battle of Vilnius (1915))
Виленская операция) or Battle of Vilnius (German: Schlacht bei Wilna) took place in the autumn of 1915 between the cities of Vilnius and Daugavpils. It was strategic...
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Vilna Governorate-General (redirect from Governor-General of Vilnius)
1794 when territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were incorporated into the Russian Empire following the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian...
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