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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 (/ˈvɪlniəs/ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ; previously known in English as Vilna, see other names) is the capital of and largest city in...
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  • The city of Vilnius, now the capital of Lithuania, and its surrounding region has been under various states. The Vilnius Region has been part of the Grand...
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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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  • Polish autonomy in the Vilnius Region (Polish: Autonomia Wileńszczyzny; Lithuanian: Vilniaus krašto autonomija) was an idea about a politically autonomous...
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  • The city of Vilnius, the capital and largest city of Lithuania, has an extensive history starting from the Stone Age. Vilnius was the head of the Grand...
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    located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius and is also known as Capital Region or Sostinės regionas by the Lithuanian statistics department...
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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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    there was the Polish–Lithuanian War, whose main focus was Vilnius and the nearby region. In its aftermath, the majority of the Polish population living...
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    1920, Poland took control of Vilnius Region and annexed it as Wilno Voivodeship in 1922. Lithuania continued to claim Vilnius as its de jure capital (the...
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    relations with Poland after 1920, protesting the annexation of the Vilnius Region by Poland. As pre-World War II tensions in Europe intensified, Poland...
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    seized the Vilnius Region that Lithuania made claims to. It was incorporated into Poland on 18 April 1922. The region centered around Vilnius, the historical...
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    67% of the city's population, 50% in the entire Vilnius census region and the vast majority in the Vilnius census district. World War I ended on November...
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    of Warsaw and in full retreat. The disputed Vilnius region centered on the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, founded by the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas...
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    evolution of Vilnius between 1766 and 2024: Demographic history of the Vilnius region Some inhabitants of Vilnius district were registered at Vilnius city healthcare...
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    Osip Senkovsky from St. Petersburg University, originally from the Vilnius Region, collaborated with the Tsarist administration and developed the theory...
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    Zarasai, Naujieji Švenčionys, Vilnius, Eišiškės, Lida, Ashmyany and Hrodna) were reserved for territories in the Vilnius Region, that Lithuania had claims...
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    corresponded to the Vilnius Region, which was later occupied by Germany, Bolsheviks, and Poland. The first governorates, Vilnius Governorate (consisting of...
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    Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty (category Vilnius in World War II)
    Lithuania would acquire about one fifth of the Vilnius Region, including Lithuania's historical capital, Vilnius, and in exchange would allow five Soviet military...
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    control of Vilnius on October 9, 1920, which led to the separation of the official Lithuanian capital and the surrounding Vilnius region from Lithuania...
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    German–Lithuanian military alliance against Poland and promised to return the Vilnius Region, but Lithuania held to its policy of strict neutrality. When Germany...
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  • [citation needed] As a self-identification, it persisted in Lithuania’s Vilnius Region into the late 20th century. For example, in 1989, a poll of persons...
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  • Christian Stang, it was based on the Ruthenian dialects of the region around Vilnius. Also, the Podlachian microlanguage is referred to by locals as...
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    and mass-closure of Lithuanian language schools in the Vilnius Region, especially when Vilnius Voivode Ludwik Bociański issued a secret memorandum of...
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  • break out with their commander, Reiner Stahel. During the interwar, the Vilnius Region was disputed between the Second Polish Republic and Lithuania. During...
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    Polish–Soviet War. Poland had territorial claims over Lithuania, especially the Vilnius Region; these tensions spilt over into the Polish–Lithuanian War. British-Polish...
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  • thus militarily securing the Suwałki Region and opening the possibility of an assault on the city of Vilnius (Wilno). Polish Chief of State, Józef Piłsudski...
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    characteristic of the Medininkai region as whole. The name "Aukštojas" was suggested by Libertas Klimka, a professor of history at the Vilnius Pedagogical University...
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  • combined league. Vilnius region league is by far the largest and most competitive. There were three more lower divisions competing in the region in 2019. 2019...
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    fighting lasted from 1943 to 1945. The fighting took place mainly in the Vilnius region and beyond. The roots of the conflict date back to the early 20th century...
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