Castle Hill (Lithuanian: Pilies kalnas) or Gediminas' Hill (Lithuanian: Gedimino kalnas) is a hill in Vilnius, Lithuania at the confluence of Neris and...
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The Vilnius Castle Complex (Lithuanian: Vilniaus pilių kompleksas or Vilniaus pilys) is a group of cultural, and historic structures on the left bank of...
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Gediminas' Tower (redirect from Castle of Gediminas)
Upper Castle on top of the Gediminas Hill in Vilnius, Lithuania. It has a viewing platform that offers scenic views of Vilnius Old Town and Vilnius Central...
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Labrador, Canada Castle Hill (Buda), the oldest part of the Hungarian capital Castle Hill, New Zealand Castle Hill (Vilnius), Lithuania Castle Hill, Ljubljana...
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Gediminas, who invited Jews and Germans to settle and built a wooden castle on a hill. Vilnius became a city in 1387, after the Christianization of Lithuania...
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Gediminas, who invited Jews and Germans to settle and built a wooden castle on a hill. Vilnius gained city rights in 1387 after the Christianization of Lithuania...
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Gediminas Hill Lift (Lithuanian: Keltuvas į Gedimino kalną) is an inclined lift in up the slope of the Gediminas Hill, Vilnius, Lithuania. Opened in 2003...
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Rokantiškės Castle (Lithuanian: Rokantiškių pilis) ruins are in Naujoji Vilnia elderate of Vilnius, Lithuania. The castle was located east of Vilnius on a high...
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Vilnius Art Academy are exhibited in the castle. It is possible to walk inside the castle, and admire the wonderful view that opens from the castle tower...
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itself to the symbolic gesture of hanging Lithuanian flag over the Vilnius Castle Hill, and then on January 1 it also evacuated with the Germans by train...
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Kalnai Park (category Parks in Vilnius)
within the Vilnius Old Town elderate near Gediminas Hill and Gediminas Tower, and is part of the State Cultural Reserve of Vilnius Castles, established...
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Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (redirect from Ducal Palace in Vilnius)
and the future Kings of Poland. The palace, located in the lower castle of Vilnius, evolved over the years and prospered during the 16th and mid-17th...
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Iron Wolf (character) (category History of Vilnius)
Vilkas) is a mythical character from a medieval legend of the founding of Vilnius, the capital city of the old Grand Duchy of Lithuania and modern Republic...
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200 sq mi), with a population of 2.88 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians...
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Várkerület (redirect from Castle District, Buda)
the Castle District (Hungarian: Várkerület or Budavár) and is the historical part of the Buda side of Budapest. It consists of the Buda Castle Hill and...
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As a result of the German-Soviet Invasion of Poland part of Vilnius Region was under Lithuanian administration in the period lasting from the takeover...
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Cathedral Square in Vilnius (Lithuanian: Katedros aikštė) is the main square of the Vilnius Old Town, right in front of the neo-classical Vilnius Cathedral. It...
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Lithuania gallery Vilnius Cathedral Trakai Island Castle House of Perkūnas, Kaunas Spa town of Druskininkai Hill of Crosses Gate of Dawn, Vilnius Historic houses...
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of Vilnius residents, the city's oldest surviving surnames are Lithuanian. Pagan Lithuanians primarily lived at the northern foot of Gediminas' Hill and...
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part of a strategic triangle - Kaunas - Vilnius - Merkinė, protected with the chains of hillforts and castles. The center of Merkinė town is a state-protected...
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Ritterswerder (category Castles of the Teutonic Knights)
now part of the city of Kaunas. The Order built the castle after they failed to capture Vilnius, capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in a five-week...
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Maišiagala (category Towns in Vilnius County)
had a large defensive castle, which was part of the defensive network around Vilnius against the Teutonic Knights. The wooden castle was destroyed in 1365...
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Hillfort (redirect from Hill forts)
list of castles, fortresses, forts, an hillforts. The Latvian word for hillfort is pilskalns (plural: pilskalni), from pils (castle) and kalns (hill). Hillforts...
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Bradeliškės Hillfort (category Vilnius District Municipality)
The Bradeliškės hill fort (also called Pakilta ) is a hill fort (piliakalnis) in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. The hill fort is situated near...
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Kernavė (category Towns in Vilnius County)
Širvintos and 35 kilometers (22 mi) from Vilnius. It is close to the Vilnius-Kaunas (18 km or 11 mi) and Vilnius-Panevėžys (17 km or 11 mi) highways. It...
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history of the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. 1323 Gediminas relocates Lithuanian capital to Vilnius from Trakai. Castle on Gediminas Hill expanded. 1330 – Coat...
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Monuments and memorials in Vilnius. "Trijų kryžių kalnas" (in Lithuanian). Directorate of the State Cultural Reserve of Vilnius Castles. Archived from the original...
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confirmed the existence of a former rectangular masonry castle wall, which had surrounded the hill. It is supposed that the residential buildings had occupied...
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Voruta (category Castles in Lithuania)
Mindaugas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Žara. ISBN 9986-34-020-9. Zabiela, Gintautas (1995). Lietuvos medinės pilys (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Diemedis. p. 175. ISBN 9986-23-018-7...
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Apuolė Hillfort (category Hill forts in Lithuania)
LCCN 74-114275. Zabiela, Gintautas (1995). Lietuvos medinės pilys (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Diemedis. p. 63. ISBN 9986-23-018-7. Butrimas, Adomas; Jovaiša, Eugenijus;...
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