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After the Russian invasion of Ukraine and an influx of Ukrainian refugees to Lithuania, who were granted a refugee status [1] the number of inhabitants of Vilnius rose to 636,209 as of February 2024 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The number of inhabitants of Vilnius, born in Ukraine rose from 10 thousand to 29 thousand between 2021 ...
Vilnius (/ ˈ v ɪ l n i ə s / ⓘ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ⓘ) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the most-populous city in the Baltic states.The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,404, [7] and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864.
Coat of Arms of Vilnius Vilna Gaon Adam Mickiewicz Czesław Miłosz Ferdynand Ruszczyc Juliusz Słowacki Antanas Smetona Tomas Venclova. The following is a list of notable people from Lithuania's capital city of Vilnius (historically known by the names of Vilna/Wilna/Wilno). It includes people who were born or resided there.
Polish people constitute the majority of native rural inhabitants in the Vilnius region. However, the share of Poles across the region is dwindling mainly due to the natural decline of rural population and process of suburbanization – most of new residents in the outskirts of Vilnius are Lithuanians.
[3] [12] Vilnius was incorporated into the Russian Empire, and was its third-largest city at the beginning of the 19th century. [3] The city was again affected by the 1830 November Uprising and the January Uprising in 1863. [3] According to the 1897 Russian census, Vilnius had a population of 154,532 residents and the Vilna Governorate had ...
Map of Vilna Ghetto (small ghetto, in olive-green) In order to pacify the predominantly poorer Jewish quarter in the Vilnius Old Town and force the rest of the more affluent Jewish residents into the new German-envisioned ghetto, the Nazis staged – as a pretext – the Great Provocation incident on 31 August 1941, led by SS Einsatzkommando 9 Oberscharführer Horst Schweinberger under orders ...
Area of the Lithuanian language in the 16th century. The name of Lithuania – Lithuanians – was first mentioned in 1009. Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes ('susilieti, lietis' means to unite and the word 'lietuva' means ...
By the end of the war, only 111.000 people were left in Vilnius [92] (before 1939 the number was circa 200.000), [93] which had an obvious impact on the city's community and its traditions; what before the war was a Polish-Jewish [clarification needed] city with a tiny Lithuanian minority was instantly [specify] Lithuanized, with Lithuanians ...