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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
Although Lithuania experienced much emigration after independence in 1990, Vilnius' population was almost unchanged (542,287 in 2001) and has increased every year since 2006; its 1 January 2020 population was 580,020. [3] [23] Vilnius (in green) in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in a 1712 map
The Old Town of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Vilniaus senamiestis), one of the largest surviving medieval old towns in Northern Europe, as inscribed within Unesco World Heritage sites], has an area of 3.59 square kilometres (887 acres). It encompasses 74 quarters, with 70 streets and lanes numbering 1487 buildings with a total floor area of 1,497,000 ...
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.
Module:Location map/data/Lithuania Vilnius is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Vilnius. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.