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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.
The conflict over Vilnius Region was settled after World War II when both Poland and Lithuania were in the Eastern Bloc, as Poland was the Soviet satellite state of the Polish People's Republic and Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, and Poles were repatriated to Poland. From the late 1940s to ...
Map of Vilnius neighborhoods. Numbers on the map correspond with numbers in the list ...
Portion of map, which depicts the oldest known image of Lithuanian capital Vilnius (14th century), the “Bohemian road-map”. Panorama of Vilnius in the 17th century. Old Town Vilnius in 1919 Aerial photo of the Old Town in 2018. There are more monuments of interest in the Old Town than in any other part of Vilnius; they include:
Vilna Governorate (light green), 1843–1915, with modern Lithuania outlined Vilna Governorate (light green), 1795–97, again with modern Lithuania outlined Vilna Governorate in 1897 Coat of arms of Vilna Governorate used since 1845. The Vilna Governorate [a] was a province of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. In 1897, the ...
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.
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 ...
After the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Vilna Governorate was formed and Vilensky Uyezd occupied all of what is now Vilnius district municipality. When Vilnius and its suburbs in 1923 were incorporated into Interwar Poland , what is now Vilnius district municipality was the core of Wilno-Troki County .