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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.

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 ”.

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.

* Uniwersytet Stefana Batorego ( Stefan Batory University ), now Vilnius University, a university in Lithuania

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

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He taught natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel ( 1778 – 1784 ), and later at Academy of Vilna ( Vilnius University ) ( 1784 – 1787 ).

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.

While at the University of Vilnius he wrote the article, " Neuholland und die brittische Colonie in Botany-Bay ", published in the Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, ( Berlin, Dezember 1786 ), a remarkably prescient essay on the future prospects of the English colony founded in New South Wales in 1788.

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* 1753-Vilnius observatory at Vilnius University, Lithuania

She then attended University of Vilnius to pursue graduate studies in archaeology under Jonas Puzinas, linguistics, ethnology, folklore and literature.

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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.

After World War II, the excavation works were restarted by Vilnius University in 1979, and then again by the Lithuanian Institute of History between 1980 – 1983.

* Imperial University of Vilna ; now Vilnius University

In 1956 she graduated from the economic faculty of Vilnius University as a financier.

* University of Vilnius

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.

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.

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.

Most of these actions ended at the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, but others took longer to be reversed ; Vilnius University was reopened only after Russia had lost control of the city in 1919.

On 9 October 1920, the Polish Army surreptitiously, under General Lucjan Żeligowski, seized Vilnius during an operation known as Żeligowski's Mutiny.

Władysław sponsored the creation of the diocese of Vilnius under bishop Andrzej Wasilko, the former confessor of Elisabeth of Hungary.

The Union of Vilnius and Radom of 1401 confirmed Vytautas's status as grand duke under Władysław's overlordship, while assuring the title of grand duke to the heirs of Władysław rather than those of Vytautas: should Władysław die without heirs, the Lithuanian boyars were to elect a new monarch.

Gary was born in Vilnius under the name Roman Kacew (, ).

According to the plan of the German general Karl Ludwig von Phull, the Russian troops under the command of Count Michael Barclay de Tolly had to face the Grande Armée at Vilnius region, the remaining troops under general Pyotr Bagration would launch an attack to the French's southern flank and rear.

The present-day Vilnius International Airport is a state owned enterprise under the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

AirBaltic, the national airline of Latvia and under SAS part-ownership, opened up a second base at Vilnius in 2004 to complement its Riga operation and became the largest carrier at Vilnius, using Boeing 737 jets and Fokker F50 turboprops.

While Poland under Józef Piłsudski attempted to create a Polish-led federation in the area that would include a number of ethnically non-Polish territories ( Międzymorze ), Lithuania strove to create a fully independent state that would include the Vilnius region.

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.

After his 1823 marriage to Esther Fega Eisenstein ( died August 1871, Vilnius ), Rabbi Lipkin settled in Salant, where he continued his studies under Rabbi Hirsch Broda and Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, himself a disciple of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin.

The Home Army forces of combined district Vilnius and Navahrudak were intended to strike from the outside under the lead of lieutenant colonel " Poleszczuk ".

In result, three thousand soldiers under general Reiner Stahel had eluded the besiegers under the cover of night in 13 July, but were beaten up in a fight, which took place in a battle of Krawczuny ( district of Vilnius ) with the Home Army soldiers of major " Węgielny ".

New commander of the Vilnius district lieutenant colonel Zygmunt Izydor Blumski and commander of the district Navahrudak lieutenant colonel Janusz Prawdzic Szlaski moved units into the Forest of Rudnicka under a constant fire of Soviet aircraft.

On 29 March 2004, Cantat was sentenced by Vilnius Regional Court under Article 129 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code to 8 years in prison for murder committed with indirect intent ( dolus eventualis ), i. e. it was acknowledged by the court that he didn't want to kill the victim, but foresaw her death as a probable consequence of his acts and was indifferent with regard to such a consequence.

From 1940 until September 1944, under Lithuanian professor and activist Mykolas Biržiška, the University of Vilnius was open for Lithuanian students under supervision of the German occupation authorities.

In the north, on July 7, 1944, the forces of the Vilnius and Nowogródek Home Army districts ( some 13, 000 men under Colonel Aleksander Krzyżanowski ) launched an attack on German-held Vilnius, although the attack stalled until the arrival of Soviet forces.