VILNIUS NAMES THE CAPITAL LITHUANIA LARGEST POPULATION THE SOUTHEAST THE BALTIC STATES SEAT GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AS OF VILNIUS DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY CLASSIFIED GAMMA GLOBAL CITY GAWC ARCHITECTURE OLD TOWN UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE JEWISH INFLUENCE THE CENTURY JERUSALEM NAPOLEON THE NORTH PASSING THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL CULTURE AUSTRIAN CITY OF LINZ NAME VILNIA RIVER DERIVATE LANGUAGES VILNA COMMON OLDER RUSSIAN NAME THE NAMES WILNA FRENCH ITALIAN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS COMMONWEALTH SECOND POLISH REPUBLIC THE NEIGHBORHOODS ETHNIC GROUPS IN HISTORIAN VORUTA THE CASTLES MINDAUGAS CROWNED IN AS KING OF LITHUANIA REIGN VYTENIS EMERGE TRADING SETTLEMENT FRANCISCAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WRITTEN SOURCES THE LETTERS GRAND DUKE GEDIMINAS SENT GERMAN CITIES GERMANS GERMAN JEWS SETTLE POPE JOHN XXII LETTERS UNAMBIGUOUS REFERENCE OLD TRAKAI CASTLE THE COURT THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA IRON WOLF HILLTOP PAGAN PRIEST DESTINED RULER THE STATE THUS THE IRON WOLF CASTLE WHICH WILL LITHUANIAN LANDS DWELLING THE GLORY DEEDS SHALL ECHO THE WORLD THE LOCATION PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES HEARTLAND CONFLUENCE NAVIGABLE FORESTS WETLANDS DUCHY SUBJECT TO THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS FLOURISHING THE RESIDENCE THE GRAND DUKE WARFARE STRATEGIC ALLIANCES HEIGHT THE TERRITORY POLAND VYTAUTAS THE GREAT JOGAILA CIVIL LITHUANIAN CIVIL WAR VYTAUTAS BESIEGED RAZED ATTEMPT WREST CONTROL SETTLED DIFFERENCES THE UNION LUBLIN THE COMMONWEALTH RULERS FEDERATION EITHER OR TITLES GRAND DUKE OF LITHUANIA KING OF ACTING MAGDEBURG RIGHTS PERIOD VILNIUS CITY WALL PROTECTION COMPRISING NINE CITY GATE SIGISMUND AUGUST COURT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ALMA ACADEMIA UNIVERSITAS IESU KING STEFAN BATHORY THE UNIVERSITY SOON DEVELOPED SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL THE REGION SCIENTIFIC RAPID OPEN TERRITORIES VARIETY OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC LATIN YIDDISH HEBREW TURKIC LANGUAGES BABYLON GROUP UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION THE LIFE SCIENCE PROSPERED NUMBER INVOLVED COLLECTIVELY THE DELUGE WAR RUSSIAN FORCES THE GREAT NORTHERN WAR LOOTED SWEDISH BUBONIC PLAGUE FIRES MOMENTUM MANY YEARS AT THE END NAPOLEON WARS INHABITANTS THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE THE FORTUNES DECLINED PARTITIONS TERRITORY HABSBURG EMPIRE THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA THE THIRD PARTITION ANNEXED VILNA GOVERNORATE RUSSIAN CITY WALLS THE GATE DAWN IN THE CITY TAKEN PUSH MOSCOW THOUSANDS SOLDIERS DIED RETREAT THE MASS GRAVES UNCOVERED TSAR ALEXANDER GRANT AUTONOMY IN RESPONSE NAPOLEONS PROMISES DIDNT AUTONOMOUS ITSELF CONGRESS POLAND NOVEMBER UPRISING VILNIUS UNIVERSITY CLOSED DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL UNREST THE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY JANUARY UPRISING HEAVY FIGHTING PACIFIED MIKHAIL MURAVYOV NICKNAMED THE HANGMAN EXECUTIONS THE UPRISING CIVIL LIBERTIES POLISH LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE JEWISH POPULATION RUSSIAN CENSUS TOTAL POPULATION OF JEWS THE EARLY RUSSIAN SPEAKERS THE MAJORITY WORLD WAR THE REST THE GERMAN ARMY THE ACT LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE AFFILIATION WITHDRAWAL GERMAN FORCES UNITS DRIVEN SOVIET FORCES CHANGED HANDS LITHUANIAN WARS OF POLISH ARMY FALL THE BATTLE WARSAW RED ARMY ORDER DELAY CEDED TREATY THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DISPUTE TWO COUNTRIES THE LEAGUE THE AGREEMENT NEITHER REGION GENERAL LUCJAN SEIZED OPERATION MUTINY SURROUNDINGS DESIGNATED THE REPUBLIC OF CENTRAL LITHUANIA ELECTION IN CENTRAL LITHUANIA ENTIRE AREA BECOMING WILNO VOIVODSHIP KAUNAS TEMPORARY CAPITAL OF LITHUANIA ANNEXATION REFUSED DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH PREDOMINANT TIME WAS CONTEMPORARY COUNCIL OF AMBASSADORS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY EXCEPTION SOVEREIGNTY VILNUS STEFAN BATORY UNIVERSITY FIFTH ELEKTRIT FACTORY RADIO RECEIVERS WORLD WAR II INVASION OF POLAND IN SEPTEMBER THE SECRET PROTOCOLS PACT SOVIET SPHERES OF INTEREST THE SOVIET UNION INVADED THE USSR ASSISTANCE LITHUANIAN GOVERNMENT ACCEPTED PRESENCE SOVIET MILITARY BASES PARTS THE RED ARMY SUBURBS NAUJOJI VILNIA LITHUANIAN ARMY PARADE THE LITHUANIANS IMMEDIATELY ATTEMPTED EXAMPLE THE WHOLE ULTIMATUM THE SOVIETS DEMANDING NUMBERS ENTER THE COUNTRY PURPOSE HELPING THE ULTIMATUM SOVIET GOVERNMENT LITHUANIAN SSR SUBSEQUENTLY ARRESTED NKVD GULAG FAR EASTERN AREAS DEVASTATED MOVING THE MAJOR RADIO LABOUR MINSK WHERE IT VYACHESLAV MOLOTOV STALINS MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE GERMANS LAUNCHED OPERATION BARBAROSSA CAPTURED GHETTO SMALLER LIQUIDATED LASTED DEPORTED FAILED GHETTO UPRISING ORGANIZED FAREINIGTE PARTIZANER UNITED PARTISAN ORGANIZATION JEWISH PARTISAN DESTRUCTION THE HOLOCAUST MURDERED NAZI COLLABORATORS PANERIAI WEST PONARY MASSACRE STREET SIGN UNVEILED STREET RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS THE SOVIET ARMY POLISH ARMIA KRAJOWA OPERATION OSTRA BRAMA VILNIUS OFFENSIVE THE LEADERS ARMIA KRAJOWA AFTERWARDS THE TOWN ONCE AGAIN THE WAR ALTERED EXPELLED INTELLIGENTSIA WAFFEN SS HIDING THE FOREST DEPORTED TO SIBERIA AFTER THE WAR COMPELLED COMMUNIST SOVIETIZATION BEGIN GROW LITHUANIANS POLES NEIGHBOURING REGIONS RUSSIA MICRODISTRICT ELDERATE SUPREME COUNCIL OF ANNOUNCED SECESSION INTENTION INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA ATTACK RADIO AND TELEVISION BUILDING VILNIUS TV TOWER KILLING FOURTEEN CIVILIANS FINALLY THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION