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During the 1980s basketball was an important outlet of national feelings, particularly when the country's favorite team, Žalgiris Kaunas, played against CSKA Moscow in the finals of the Soviet Union league. The Lithuanian basketball medals in the 1992 Olympic Games encouraged this symbolism.
Kaunas (/ ˈ k aʊ n ə s /; Lithuanian: [ˈkɐʊ̯ˑnˠɐs] ⓘ; previously known in English as Kovno / ˈ k ɒ v n oʊ /) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. [10]
Currently, the term temporary capital, despite being factually out of date, is still frequently used as a nickname for Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania. On 18 September 2023 the modernist buildings in Kaunas that were built while Kaunas was the temporary capital of Lithuania and experienced rapid urbanization were recognized as a ...
Naujamiestis (Kaunas) Žemieji Šančiai; Milikoniai; Birutė (Kaunas) Kazliškiai; Armaniškiai; Panerys; Šablonas:Kauno miesto dalys; Žemutiniai Kaniūkai; Aukštutiniai Kaniūkai; Kauno miesto dalys; Jiesia (Kaunas) Julijanava; Smėliai (Kaunas) Vytėnai (Kaunas) Armališkės (Kaunas) Maironiškiai; Marva; View more global usage of this file.
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The City of Kaunas was chosen as its site, since the historic capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, was part of Poland between 1920 and 1939. A design competition was held in 1928 and the proposal drawn up by Karolis Reisonas was chosen for the church as the best. Due to the technical difficulties arising from the grand scope of the design, and ...
Kaunas' New Town - the district, located east of Old Town, began to develop in 1847, tzar-time type of the new rectangular structure of the city. The New Town of Kaunas occupies 314 hectares. The New Town is especially known for Interbellum functionalism architecture complexes when Kaunas became the Temporary capital of Lithuania. In the New ...