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The city of Vilnius, the capital and largest city of Lithuania, has an extensive history starting from the Stone Age.The city has changed hands many times between Imperial and Soviet Russia, Napoleonic France, Imperial and Nazi Germany, Interwar Poland, and Lithuania.
1983 – Vilnius Combined Heat and Power Plant commissioned. 1985 – Population: 544,000. [26] 1987 – Vilnius Jazz Festival begins. 1989 – Jewish State Museum established. 1990 11 March: Lithuania declares independence from USSR. Vilnius Lyceum and Vilniaus lietuviĊ³ namai (school) established. 1991 – January: City besieged by Soviet ...
Vilnius was the capital of the Lithuania Governorate from 1797 to 1801, the Vilna Governorate-General from 1794 to 1912, and the Vilna Governorate from 1795 to 1915. [154] [155] After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Vilnius was the capital of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. [153]
He invaded Lithuania on 8 October 1920, captured Vilnius the following day, and established a short-lived Republic of Central Lithuania in eastern Lithuania on 12 October 1920. The republic was a part of PiĊsudski's federalist scheme, which never materialized due to opposition from both Polish and Lithuanian nationalists.
Regardless, Lithuania claimed Vilnius as its capital. During World War II, the city changed hands many times, and the German occupation resulting in the destruction of Jews in Lithuania. From 1945 to 1990, Vilnius was the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic's capital. From the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Vilnius has been part of Lithuania.
Map of the newly established states and frontiers in 1918 Map showing the territory of Central Lithuania (green) created by the Second Polish Republic as compared with the Kingdom of Lithuania, attempted to create in 1918 on the core territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania c. 1921. Vilnius Region is the territory in present-day ...
Lithuania, [b] officially the Republic of Lithuania, [c] is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. [d] It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a maritime border with Sweden to the west.
Pages in category "History of Vilnius" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. ... Social Democratic Party of Lithuania and Belorussia;