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    Vilyeyka (redirect from Wilejka)
    Peace of Riga following Polish–Soviet War, becoming the center of the Wilejka county in the Wilno Voivodeship (1923–1939) 1939 – annexed back to Soviet...
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    daughter of Michał and Jadwiga (née Bielska). She attended gimnazjum in Nowa Wilejka and Wołkowysk until she left home in 1929 for Białystok. She married Franciszek...
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    Vilnia (also Vilnelė; Belarusian: Вільня, Vilnia [ˈvʲilʲnʲa]; Polish: Wilejka, Wilenka) is a river in Belarus and Lithuania. Its source is near the villages...
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    Naujoji Vilnia (redirect from Nowa Wilejka)
    Naujoji Vilnia is an eldership in eastern Vilnius, Lithuania situated along the banks of the Vilnia River. According to the 2011 census, the district had...
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    Land. On 1 April 1927, Mołodeczno county and was created from parts of Wilejka (5 gminas), Oszmiana (1 gmina), Wołożyń (1 gmina) and Stołpce (1 gmina)...
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    Minsk-Stadt (Minsk-Urban) Nowogródek (Navahrudak) Slonim Sluzk (Sluck) Wilejka (Vileyka) In March 1943, Wilhelm Kube succeeded in installing the Belarusian...
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    June 24, 1941, the NKVD executed at least 28 prisoners held in Vileyka (Wilejka in pre-war Poland). Remaining prisoners, over 1,000 men and women, were...
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    Podole The newly created regiments were named as follows: Głębokie Wołożyn Wilejka Suwałki Sarny Czortków In early 1937 the organisation was modified. Wilno...
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    forces. On 29 July 1941, at a meeting of SS officers in Vileyka (Polish Wilejka, now Belarus), the Einsatzgruppen had been given a dressing-down for their...
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    he and his sister Stefanja were shot to death in Naujoji Vilnia (Nowa Wilejka), 7 km east of Vilnius, by the occupying German forces or Lithuanian collaborators...
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    011 people, including children) 25 May – 17 June, Operation Kormoran; (Wilejka, Borysów, Minsk; 7,697 people, including children) 2 June – 13 June, Operation...
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    the 13th Regiment of Wilno Uhlans "Wileńskich" ("From Vilnius") in Nowa Wilejka (at present part of Vilnius), where he was the commander of the 1st Tatar...
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    1941. During the interwar period, Vilyeyka (Belarusian: Вілейка, Polish: Wilejka) was located within the borders of the Second Polish Republic and served...
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    identity on Roman Catholics in Belarus. In January 1921, the starosta from Wilejka wrote of the popular mood as being one of resignation and apathy among...
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    Counties. Additionally to territory were added Duniłowicze, Dzisna and Wilejka Counties from neighbouring Nowogródek Voivodeship. Between 1923 and 1924...
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    Część II — Ziemia Wileńska — Powiaty: Brasław, Duniłowicze, Brasław i Wilejka, Główny Urząd Statystyczny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, Warszawa 1923, s...
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    located in Wilno Land, and from 1926 to 1939, in Wilno Voivodeship. Nowa Wilejka Trakai Gierwiaty Mejszagoła Mickuny Niemenczyn Olkieniki Orany (1926–1939)...
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  • (Lithuanian), Vilejka - Vilejka (Belarusian), Vilejka - Vilejka (Russian), Wilejka (German, Polish) Vilhelmina Vilhelmina (Swedish), Vualtjere (Southern Sami)...
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    doctor from the polish noble Jelia family, who settled in 1921 in Nowa Wilejka, 10 km east of Vilnius. During WWI, the family was evacuated to Sumy (today...
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    Date 31 December 1918 – 5 January 1919 Location Vilnius (Wilno) and Naujoji Vilnia (Nowa Wilejka) Result Bolshevik victory...
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  • – Wilno City of Wilno Police districts I, II, VI, and the town of Nowa Wilejka, District 46 – Wilno City of Wilno Police districts III, IV, and V, District...
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    Vilanus, that was reformed into a separate county. Vilnius (1920–1921) Nowa Wilejka Worniany Mejszagoła Mickuny Niemenczyn Rzesza Soleczniki Szumsk Turgiele...
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    in 1926 as the only son of Jadwiga Kieżun and Michał Konwicki in Nowa Wilejka, where he spent his early childhood. His father died early and Konwicki...
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    Szczerzec: (about 30); Tarasowski Las: (about 100); Tarnopol: (up to 1000); Wilejka: (over 700); Wilno: (hundreds); Włodzimierz Wołynski, Wołkowysk: (seven);...
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    Kormoran (May 25 – June 17, 1944) — anti-partisan operation in Belarus: Wilejka, Borysów, Mińsk Rösselsprung ("Knight's-move") (May 25 – July 3, 1944)...
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    cities of Vilnius, Minsk, Hrodna, Lida and Kaunas, or towns like Ašmiany, Wilejka, Nemenčinė, Świr and Panevėžys; until December 1918 those units had no...
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    They were born in Krajsk [be] and Janowszczyzna (near Olkowicze [ru]), Wilejka powiat, Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now — Minsk Region, Belarus)...
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  • Regiment, stationed in Wilno 13th Wilno Uhlan Regiment, stationed in Nowa Wilejka 23rd Grodno Uhlan Regiment, stationed in Postawy 3rd Mounted Artillery...
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    Reinhard Heydrich himself, quoted at an SS meeting in Vileyka (Polish Wilejka), criticized their leaders for the low execution figures. It was therefore...
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    the rank of Corporal he was assigned to the 85 Infantry Regiment in Nowa Wilejka, Wilno Voivodeship. In August 1939 his unit was incorporated in the "Prusy"...
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