In the southern angle of Trakai voivodeship and south-eastern part of Vilnius voivodeship there were also many Belarusians ; in some of the south-eastern areas they were the major linguistic group.

The basic structure of socionics was established in the 1960s and 1970s by Aušra Augusta ( formerly Augustinavičiūtė ), along with a group of enthusiasts who met in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Dniproavia, having come into the Privat Group's business portfolio, joined the Ukrainian aviation group, and scheduled flights from Kiev to Vilnius, Riga, Bucharest, Chisinau, Kaliningrad, Tashkent, Сopenhagen, Yerevan, Minsk, and Gyanja were initiated.

The letter of the eight was followed on 6 February by a letter from the Vilnius group comprising Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, and Slovakia which effectively supported a US military intervention in Iraq.

The letter was on 6 February followed by the Vilnius letter, a more outspoken declaration of support for the position of the United States from the Vilnius group composed of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and the then-member of the UN Security Council, Bulgaria.

As motto of the Vilnius group was chosen:

Macedonia had been expected to join in 2009, but because of the Macedonia naming dispute, Greece vetoed Macedonia's invitation, leaving it as the only former member of the Vilnius group not to be a member of NATO by 2009.

# Redirect Vilnius group

The 250 to 300 surviving Jews of the HKP camp constituted the largest single group of survivors of the genocide in Vilnius.

The government did not have power in the Vilnius Region, under control of a different army group.

Leading poet Abraham Sutzkever ( 1913 – 2010 ) was among the Modernists of the 1930s " Young Vilna " group in Vilnius, a historical centre of Yiddish culture.

In Vilnius, Lithuania ( called Vilna or Vilne by its Jewish inhabitants, and one of the most historically significant centers of Yiddish cultural activity ), the group “ Yung Vilne ” (“ Young Vilna ”) included Chaim Grade, Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczerginski.

Abe ( Abba ) Kovner, the movement's leader, along with 17 members of local Zionist group Hashomer Hatzair, stationed at a Polish Catholic convent for an order of Dominican Sisters, sheltered from the Nazis by Mother Superior Anna Borkowska ( Sister Bertranda ), Righteous among the Nations, who was the first to supply hand grenades and other weapons to the Vilnius ghetto underground.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

In 1931, during the refurbishment of Vilnius Cathedral, the forgotten sarcophagus of Alexander was discovered, and has since been put on display.

File: Vilnius. Sv. Onos baznycia. Saint Ann's church2. jpg | Gothic St. Anne's Church in Vilnius was constructed on his initiative in 1495-1500.

They brought with them the Old Church Slavonic liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Christian religion, written Slavic language, the version of which known as Chancery Slavonic was to serve the Lithuanian court's document-producing needs for a few centuries, and developed laws, turning Vilnius into a major center of their civilization.

There was much devastation and population loss throughout the GDL in the mid and late 17th century, including the ethnic Lithuanian population in Vilnius voivodeship.

The Lithuanian language was used orally in Vilnius, Trakai and Samogitian voivodeships, and by small numbers of people elsewhere.

In 2010 the 12th Summit of the BDF was held in Vilnius.

After unsuccessful proposals by Paul Hymans to create a federation between Poland and Lithuania, Vilnius and the surrounding area was formally annexed by Poland in March 1922.

Polanyi, born Polányi Mihály () in Budapest, was the fifth child of Mihály and Cecília Pollacsek, secular Jews from Ungvár ( then in Hungary but now in the Ukraine ) and Vilnius in Lithuania, respectively.

His father's family were entrepreneurs, while his mother's father was the chief rabbi of Vilnius.

On 3 October, Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German ambassador in Moscow, informed Joachim Ribbentrop that the Soviet government was willing to cede the city of Vilnius and its environs.

George Forster, who had been on Cook ’ s second voyage to the Pacific and had been with him when he landed on Norfolk Island, was at the time professor of natural history at the University of Vilna ( or Vilnius ) in Polish Lithuania: Forster discussed the proposed Botany Bay colony in an article written in November 1786, “ Neuholland, und die brittische Colonie in Botany Bay ”.

In the year 2009, Vilnius was the European Capital of Culture, together with the Austrian city of Linz.

An older Russian name was Вильна / Вильно ( Vilna / Vilno ), although Вильнюс ( Vilnius ) is now used.

During the Russo-Polish War ( 1654 – 1667 ), Vilnius was occupied by Russian forces ; it was pillaged and burned, and its population was massacred.

After the third partition of April 1795, Vilnius was annexed by the Russian Empire and became the capital of the Vilna Governorate.

The Grande Armée was welcomed in Vilnius, since its inhabitants expected Tsar Alexander I to grant the country autonomy in response to Napoleon's promises to restore the Commonwealth.

Following the November Uprising in 1831, Vilnius University was closed and Russian repressions halted the further development of the city.

During World War I, Vilnius and the rest of Lithuania was occupied by the German Army from 1915 until 1918.

Vilnius changed hands again during the Polish-Soviet War and the Lithuanian Wars of Independence: it was taken by the Polish Army, only to fall to the Soviet forces again.

Although neither Vilnius or the surrounding region was explicitly addressed in the agreement, numerous historians have described the agreement as allotting Vilnius to Lithuania.

He allegedly now convinced the foreign ministers of the Vilnius ten, that their support for the US in this international conflict would give them much better chances in the US Congress when it was to vote on accepting those countries into NATO.

* A long-time proponent of NATO expansion, Jackson was instrumental in securing US Senate ratification of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary as members of NATO and organizing the second " Vilnius Round " of NATO expansion which brought the Baltic States, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria into both NATO and the European Union.

After the ultimatum was issued and Lithuania further occupied, a Soviet government was installed with Vilnius as the capital of the newly created Lithuanian SSR.

The area of the future Vilnius County was seized by the Polish forces without significant opposition from Lithuanian forces and Gen. Żeligowski created a short-lived state called Republic of Central Lithuania.

The EuroFaculty, created by the CBSS to support reforms at the universities in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius, was organized with its Headquarter at the University of Latvia, 1993-2005.

The union created the Voivodeship of Trakai and Vilnius, governed by two Lithuanian nobles.

He laid grounds for the establishment of the Law Faculty in the University of Vilnius, which was created in 1641.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Niels Helveg Petersen joined the newly created Council of the Baltic Sea States, which in 1993 successfully established the EuroFaculty in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius, of which he became an active supporter.

In 1413 Union of Horodło was signed ; Vilnius and Trakai Voivodeships were created in ethnic Lithuanian lands, copying the Polish system.

On January 1, 1919 local communists in the town of Šiauliai, about 200 kilometers west of Vilnius, rebelled and created a 1, 000-man " Samogitian Regiment "; when the Red Army entered the town on January 15 Soviet power already existed there.

On the basis of the Treaty of Vilnius ( 28 November 1561 ), he created the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia as a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was soon merged into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

While in Vilnius the following year, Antokolski created another high relief-" A Stingy Man ," which is sometimes referred to as " A Stingy Jew Counting his Coins ".