Polish autonomy in the Vilnius Region (Polish: Autonomia Wileńszczyzny; Lithuanian: Vilniaus krašto autonomija) was an idea about a politically autonomous...

I and the rebirth of both states, there was the Polish–Lithuanian War, whose main focus was Vilnius and the nearby region. In its aftermath, the majority...

a Polish autonomy in the Vilnius region in 1990–91. After some Polish activists supported the attempted communist coup in Moscow the Lithuanian authorities...

The Polish Army seized Vilnius again on April 19, 1919 and came in contact with the Lithuanian Army fighting in the Lithuanian–Soviet War. Despite the antagonism...

Vilnius (/ˈvɪlniəs/ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ), previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and...

from 1941 to 1944, when it was administrated as the Vilnius State University. In 1945, the Polish community of students and scholars of Stefan Batory...

Union, and was known one of the promoters of the territorial autonomy of the Vilnius region in 1991. Brodawski graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Agriculture...

The 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...

continuation of the USSR. He was one of the supporters of the autonomy movement of the Poles of the Vilnius region, that had been part of Poland which was part of...

settled in the city. Vilnius was the head of the Grand Duchy until 1795, and during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Under the Commonwealth, Vilnius flourished...

Lithuanian soil. The attempts to create a Polish autonomy in the Vilnius Region collapsed when the Moscow-led Soviet leadership, which was the project's main...

over, a specific region, but which lack institutional cohesion.[failed verification – see discussion] Such quasi-states include the Republika Srpska and...

of the German-Soviet Invasion of Poland part of Vilnius Region was under Lithuanian administration in the period lasting from the takeover of the city...

after a Polish insurrection in 1831, at which point Russia ended most of the kingdom's autonomy and exacted multiple punitive measures on the Polish populace...

the Polish–Lithuanian War, whose main focus was Vilnius and the nearby region. In its aftermath, the majority of the Polish population living in the Lithuanian...

The Great Seimas of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Didysis Vilniaus Seimas, also known as the Great Assembly of Vilnius, the Grand Diet of Vilnius, or the Great...

negotiations, the convention was agreed upon in spring 1924. The region was granted extensive legislative, judicial, administrative and financial autonomy. It had...

primarily due to the Polish occupation of Lithuania's capital Vilnius in 1920. Lithuanian Catholic priests (derogatorily called Litwomans in Polish) promoted...

and security of the ghettos. In the Vilnius region, the Lithuanians used their influential role in the administration to close Polish schools and cultural...

Worsening Polish–Lithuanian relations led to the Polish–Lithuanian War and dispute over the Vilnius Region. However, the union idea was met favorably in Western...

and Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo).p.15 The unit was subordinated to German police, and had no official autonomy. In Polish they were colloquially called strzelcy...

to capture the Vilnius Region, where a Polish-dominated Governance Committee of Central Lithuania was formed. On 8 January 1922, the Polish military enforced...

the Lithuanian and Belarusian language areas, with Vilnius as the center. After some time, especially in the Vilnius region, ignorance of the Polish language...

promised to return the Vilnius Region, but Lithuania held to its policy of strict neutrality. When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Wehrmacht took...

polska na Wileńszczyźnie w latach 1939–1941 [Polish conspiracy in the Vilnius region in 1939–1941] (in Polish). p. 12. Mačiulis 2015, p. 174-175. sfn error:...

control of the cities of Vilnius (Polish: Wilno), Suwałki (Lithuanian: Suvalkai) and Augustów (Lithuanian: Augustavas). In the aftermath of the war the Republic...

claims to the Vilnius region led to armed conflict and deteriorating relations in the interwar period. During the Second World War Polish and Lithuanian...

were erected. 1955–1989: Marijampolė city and region 1956–1989: Vilnius University 1964–1989: Award of the Lithuanian Journalists Union Lietuvos buržuazijos...

Poles were perceived as anti-Lithuanian due to the ongoing conflict over Vilnius Region with the Second Polish Republic. Jewish candidates won seven seats:...

ideas separate from Polish culture. After Abramowicz returned to Vilnius in 1919, he actively promoted the idea, that Vilnius Region should be transferred...