Vilnius University (; other names exist ) is the oldest university in the Baltic states and one of the oldest in Eastern Europe.

Prince Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł (; 1734 – 90 ) was a Polish – Lithuanian szlachcic, voivod of Vilnius and starosta of Lwów.

Jonas Basanavičius (; 23 November 1851 in Ožkabaliai – 16 February 1927 in Vilnius ) was an activist and proponent of Lithuania's National Revival and founder of the first Lithuanian language newspaper Aušra.

In July 1944, Vilnius was taken from the Germans by the Soviet Army and the Polish Armia Krajowa ( see Operation Ostra Brama and the Vilnius Offensive ).

The Soviets annexation included all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Bug, and San, except for western part of the Wilno Voivodship with its capital Wilno ( Vilnius ), which was given to Lithuania ( see map ), and the Suwałki region, which was annexed by Nazi Germany.

Following the elections held there in 1922 the state was incorporated into Poland ( see Vilnius region, Central Lithuania ).

For the geographical and historical region, see Vilnius Region.

: For the Lithuanian saint, see Eustace of Vilnius.

This includes both the traditional communities ( e. g., Lithuanians in the northwestern Belarus ( see Eastern Vilnius region ) or the Kaliningrad Oblast ( see Lithuania Minor )) and the communities that appeared during Soviet times such as Ukrainian or Belarusian workers in Kazakhstan or Latvia, whose children attended primarily the Russian-language schools and thus the further generations are primarily speaking Russian as their native language ; for example, for 57 % of Estonia's Ukrainians, 70 % of Estonia's Belarusians and 37 % of Estonia's Latvians claimed Russian is the native language in the last Soviet census of 1989.

Due to its long history of Jewish, Polish and Russian influence or rule, the city portion of its name is rendered as Vilna ( Russian ), Wilna ( German ) or Wilno ( Polish ), in addition to the modern Lithuanian Vilnius ( see History of Vilnius ).

: For the suburb of Vilnius where Jews and Poles were massacred during World War II, see Paneriai.

* Lithuania in Kaunas rather than Vilnius during the interwar period when Poland controlled the latter city ( see Temporary capital of Lithuania ).

She financed a scholarship for twenty Lithuanians to study at Charles University in Prague to help strengthen Christianity in their country, to which purpose she also founded a bishopric in Vilnius.

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.

BI has roughly 1500 students in China through its close relationship with Fudan University in Shanghai, and is also the majority shareholder of the ISM University of Management and Economics ( previously known as International School of Management ) with around 2000 students located in Vilnius and Kaunas in Lithuania.

A territorial dispute between Poland and Lithuania concerning Wilno ( Vilnius today ) also occurred.

It is also the capital of Vilnius County.

The neighbourhoods of Vilnius have also names in other languages.

The city's off-centre location can be attributed to the changing shape of the nation's borders through the centuries ; Vilnius was once not only culturally but also geographically at the centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Priests and monks were also invited to come and build churches at Vilnius and Navahradak.

In modern belief, he is also regarded as founder of Vilnius, the modern capital of Lithuania.

In addition, Vilna ( Vilnius ), the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, also had a significant Ruthenian population.

However, by 1783 Forster saw that his involvement with the Rosicrucians not only led him away from real science, but also deeper into debt ( it is said he was not good at money ); for these reason Forster was happy to accept a proposal by the Polish Komisja Edukacji Narodowej ( Commission of National Education ) and became Chair of Natural History at Vilnius University in 1784.

A small number of Turkic people also live in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

Other projects in Rio de Janeiro, Vilnius, Salzburg, Guadalajara and Taichung were also considered but not completed.

Elsewhere: There are also streets named for Kościuszko in Saint Petersburg, Russia ; downtown Belgrade, Serbia ( Ulica Tadeuša Košćuška ); Budapest, Hungary ( Kosciuszkó Tádé utca ); and Vilnius, Lithuania ( Kosciuškos gatvė ).

After being educated at Vilnius University he went abroad to learn the science of war, fighting in Spanish service under Alva, and also under Maurice of Nassau.

It is also an excellent vantage point, from where the panorama of Vilnius ' Old Town can be admired.

FlyLal ( also known as Lithuanian Airlines and LAL ) was the national airline of Lithuania, based in Vilnius.

He also promoted the town as a holiday resort for the population of Vilnius.

It also became a place of summer residence for the middle class of Vilnius, Warsaw and Moscow.

He was previously Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001, and he also served as Mayor of Vilnius from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001.

Paksas also served as chairman of the Vilnius branch of the Homeland Union ( Lithuanian Conservatives ).

In 2003, following an argument about infidelity, Bertrand Cantat, drunk at the time, beat his girlfriend Marie Trintignant, also drunk, multiple times in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania.

In Viltis, Smetona advocated national unity ; he was also one of the incorporators of the Aušra ( Dawn ) company for the publishing of Lithuanian books, a member of the Lithuanian Mutual Aid Society of Vilnius, the Lithuanian Learned Society, the Vilniaus aušra ( The Dawn of Vilnius ), and Rytas ( The Morning ) education societies, the Rūta Art Society and many other societies, taught the Lithuanian language at Vilnius schools.

Only in the 1960s did Vilnius begin to grow again, following an influx of Lithuanian and Polish population from neighbouring regions and well as from other areas of the Soviet Union ( particularly Russians and Belarusians ).

Vilnius is connected by highways to other major Lithuanian cities, such as Kaunas ( 102 km / 63 mi away ), Šiauliai ( 214 km / 133 mi away ) and Panevėžys ( 135 km / 84 mi away ).

These Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas and later spread to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.

On the other hand Lithuanians demanded that the troops in Central Lithuania be relocated behind the line drawn by the October 7, 1920 cease-fire agreement, while Hymans ' proposal left Vilnius in Polish hands, which was unacceptable to Lithuania.

In the summer of 1916, Antanas Smetona, together with other Lithuanians from Vilnius, presented a memorandum to the German Chief Commander of the Eastern Front, in which he demanded the right of the Lithuanian nation to have an independent State.

A similar uprising was started by Jakub Jasiński in Vilnius ( Wilno ) on 22 April and soon other cities and towns followed.

Jewish fighters under the leadership of Yosef Glazman, head of Betar Lithuania, battled the Nazis alongside the Lithuanian partisans in the forests of Vilnius ; anti-Nazi partisans in most other nations, however, were unwilling to fight alongside Betar.

Lower posts had to be appointed in the presence of voivodes of Vilnius, Trakai, and other voivodeships.

The variegate Lithuanian mythology of this time ( legend about emigration of Palemon from Rome to Lithuania, legend about the founding of the capital of Lithuania Vilnius by Duke Gediminas, and other pieces ) had been presented in a spirit of high lucid and virtuous patriotism.

The units in the center of city did not follow the way of other companies, as their failed to seize strategic points in ' Sródmieście ' of Vilnius.

However, the court resolved the case in Adamkus ' favor and no other obstacles remained other than his U. S. citizenship, which he officially renounced at the American Embassy in Vilnius.

He expressed support for these candidate members during the Community of Democratic Choice in 2005, at the Vilnius Conference 2006, and on several other occasions.

Mažvydas spent his youth in Vilnius, where he worked together with other pioneering Lithuanian authors from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, such as Abraomas Kulvietis, Jurgis Zablockis, and possibly Stanislovas Rapolionis.

* Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, Vilnius Branch, established on 6 October 2008 with the function of managing accounts of a certain part of SEB customers in Sweden, as well as providing other back office services to SEB units.

His description of his travels to Warsaw, Vilnius, Lviv, and Krakow, among other cities, was published in November 1925 under the title Reise in Polen ( Journey to Poland ).

* A series of attacks on border outposts of the newly-independent Republic of Lithuania during the January – July 1991, resulting in several summary execution-style deaths of the unarmed customs officers and other people ( including former members of Vilnius OMON ), were attributed to Riga OMON ; some sources say that the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had lost control of the unit.

These Tatars first settled in Lithuania proper around Vilnius, Trakai, Hrodna and Kaunas and later spread to other parts of the Grand Duchy that later became part of Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.