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    The Kaunas Mosque (Lithuanian: Kauno mečetė) is a World Heritage-listed Sunni Islamic mosque, located at Tatars Street 6 (Lithuanian: Totorių g. 6), in...
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    of the Kaunas city municipality and the Kaunas District Municipality. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas. Kaunas is located...
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    Kaunas Mosque...
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    Centro seniūnija) is an Eldership in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, based on two neighbourhoods of Kaunas - the Old City and the New City. It lies at the...
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  • Lithuanian: Ramybės parkas) is a public park in Kaunas, Lithuania, established in 1959 in the territory of the Kaunas City Old Cemetery that was also known as...
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    having relatively large Muslim populations), as well as a new brick mosque built in Kaunas during the period of interwar independence of Lithuania (in the...
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    Lithuania Tatar mosque, built in Kaunas in 1930, quincentennial year of Vytautas the Great passing Tatar mosque in Bohoniki, Poland Tatar mosque in Kruszyniany...
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    1998. Lithuanian Tatar mosques operate in Nemėžis, the village of Keturiasdešimt Totorių, Raižiai and Kaunas. There were six mosques in Lithuania before...
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    Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas and spread to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of the...
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    Mesli saved hundreds of Jews by hiding them in the basements of the Grand Mosque of Paris and other resistance efforts in France. The death rate in the Netherlands...
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    settled, dividing his time between it and his work in Kaunas. Until 1925, he worked for the Kaunas City Road and Highway Administration. At that time he...
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    hundreds of Palestinians. In April, clashes occurred around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a contested holy site in Jerusalem. In May, clashes occurred between Israel...
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    Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna, and Kaunas. The Lipka Tatar origins can be traced back to the descendant states of...
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  • Natural 1693  Latvia Old town of Kuldīga Cultural 1658  Lithuania Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939 Cultural 1661  Mongolia Deer Stone...
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  • Yalı Mosque in İzmir is built Towers and domes of Pažaislis Monastery in Kaunas, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, are added Hôtel Gayot in Strasbourg is...
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    Iceland – Turf houses Ireland – Clochán, Crannog Italy – Trullo Lithuania – Kaunas modernism, Lithuanian folk architecture, Polish-Lithuanian wooden synagogues...
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    a YouTube video. On 27 February 2019, Basketball Club Žalgiris based in Kaunas, Lithuania, had cheerleaders performing "Bitch Lasagna" during a time-out...
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  • Retrieved February 28, 2014. "Google Offers Virtual Tour of Abu Dhabi's Grand Mosque". "Google maps Office of the Prime Minister, Office of the Leader of the...
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    Polish Jews received a so-called Curaçao visa from the Dutch consul in Kaunas, Jan Zwartendijk. This allowed one Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, the...
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    Cathedral, Kyiv Nativity Cathedral, Riga St. Michael the Archangel Church, Kaunas Church of the Resurrection of the Lord, Narva The church of the Theotokos...
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    Lithuania, Sheikh Ahmed, last Khan of the Horde, died in prison in the Kaunas Castle some time after 1504. According to other sources, he was released...
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    years since its inception, the fund distributed $25 million to synagogues, mosques, and other nonprofit organizations. Immediately after the shooting, the...
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    grammar school. Stolypin served as marshal of the Kovno Governorate (now Kaunas, Lithuania) between 1889 and 1902. This public service gave him an inside...
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    character is believed to have been based on Mickiewicz's own sweetheart from Kaunas, Karolina Kowalska. The name was originally conceived by Mickiewicz himself...
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    Castello Maniace Castello Ursino Castel Nuovo Castel del Monte (Apulia) Kaunas Castle Trakai Peninsula Castle Trakai Island Castle Medininkai Castle Vilnius...
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    Lithuanian Tatars were allowed to settle in certain places, such as Trakai and Kaunas. Keturiasdešimt Totorių is one of the oldest Tatar settlements in the Grand...
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    treaty port), during which time many mosques—including the Xiaotaoyuan Mosque, the Huxi Mosque, and the Pudong Mosque—were built. The Shanghai Islamic Association...
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    Syracuse arUniversity Press. pp. 37–8. ISBN 0-8156-3054-9. "Abu Dhabi's Zayed Mosque tours to take on special Ramadan significance" (Press release). 20 August...
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    Cold War mainly in suburban areas of big cities such as Vilnius, Klaipėda, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Panevėžys and or others. The most common models are Elektror...
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    Lima, Peru Scoil Eoin Phóil, Leixlip, Ireland John Paul II Gymnasium, Kaunas, Lithuania Pope John Paul II High School in Olympia, Washington Universidad...
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