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	Vilnius region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vilnius region (Lithuanian Vilniaus kraštas) refers to a part of historical Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was disputed between Poland and Lithuania between Polish-Bolshevik War and World War II.
		As the latter state, crated as part of German plan of Mitteleuropa, did not manage to establish a strong authority, the administration over most of the region was granted to newly-reborn state of Poland.
		The term Vilnius region is used almost exclusively in Lithuanian historiography to describe the territory seized from Poland by the Red Army during the Polish-Bolshevik War and then promised to Lithuania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vilnius_region (832 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vilnius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is the capital of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality.
		Vilnius County is the biggest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius.
		Vilnius was initially planned as the capital of Belarus, but after talks in Moscow on October 10, 1939 the city and its surrounding areas were transferred to Lithuania in exchange for Soviet military bases in Lithuania.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vilnius (572 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Vilnius region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vilnius region refers to territory of Lithuania (A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea) which was under Polish (The property of being smooth and shiny) control in the interwar (additional info and facts about interwar) period.
		Major cities of Vilnius region are Vilnius (The capital and largest city of Lithuania; located in southeastern Lithuania), Gardinas (additional info and facts about Gardinas) and Lyda (additional info and facts about Lyda).
		Because capital of Lithuania Vilnius (The capital and largest city of Lithuania; located in southeastern Lithuania) was located in the region, Lithuania moved its capital (A seat of government) to Kaunas (A city in central Lithuania), which was declared a temporary capital (additional info and facts about temporary capital).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vilnius_region.htm (749 words)

	Vilnius County
		The Vilnius region was established in 1566 and continued to exist until the administrative reform of 1950 though the boundaries and jurisdiction of the region were constantly changing.
		Tourism in the Vilnius region is administered by a separate institution, the Vilnius County Tourism Board.
		The most prominent cultural monuments in the Vilnius region are the old towns of Vilnius and Trakai, the remains of Medininkai castle, churches in Rykantai and Siesikai, palaces in Siesikai and Taujenai, and homesteads in Cirkliskis, Jasiunai, Lentvaris and Traku Voke.
	www.randburg.com /li/vilniusco.html (751 words)

	Eastern Vilnius region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eastern Vilnius region is the a Lithuanian name for the part of territory of the Vilnius region that belongs to Belarus.
		The Eastern Vilnius region with a Belarusian majority of population, was attached to the Belarusian SSR.
		The situation was different in Western Vilnius region, which was part of Lithuanian SSR (given to Lithuania in 1939 and 1940).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Vilnius_region (551 words)

	Vilnius universitet - Wikipedia
		Vilnius universit (litauisk Vilniaus universitetas, polsk Uniwersytet Wileński, tidligere Stefan Bathory-universitetet) er det eldste og største universitet i Litauen.
		After Vilnius region was annexed by Poland, on August 20, 1919 by the act of Józef Piłsudski the vilnian academy was restored under the new name of Stefan Batory University (Uniwersytet Stefana Batorego).
		Vilnius University started to free itself from the Soviet ideology in 1988 thanks to the glasnost policy.
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vilnius_universitet (1627 words)

	Museovirasto
		Relevance of the research: The area in the vicinity of Vilnius city (20-30 km around it) is under strong pressure of intensive building activity.
		The assessment revealed, that built and spatial planning heritage in Vilnius region is still characterised by high cultural value and social importance for local inhabitants.
		Vernacular timber architecture is dominating in the historic settlements of Vilnius district, but the most of the structures are in dander of disappearance or rebuilding without respect of cultural value.
	www.nba.fi /en/vilnius_jureviciene (589 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		February 14, 1993: New elections are successfully held in Lithuania for the two district councils in Vilnius and Soleczniki alongside the Presidential elections, thereby easing tensions between the government and Poles.
		The Vilnius District government said these administrative divisions are economically unjustified, would bring about a change in the nationality structure on territory densely inhabited by Poles, would disintegrate the Polish community, limit Polish influence on decisions about the region=s affairs, and would breach the provisions of the Polish-Lithuanian treaty.
		When the second congress of deputies from all levels of the Vilnius region was held in Eisiskes [southern Lithuania] in October 1990 the five founders declared the establishment of a Polish national territorial district within Lithuania.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/litpolechro.htm (3253 words)

	Švenčionių verslo informacinis centras (ŠVIC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		West is the district of Molėtai, and southwest is the district of Vilnius.
		In the annals of the 13th Century it is mentioned that the Land of the Balts, Nalšia, was centered in Švenčionys.
		Throughout the region are memorials commemorating local regional people for their bravery in the 1830-1831 and 1863-1864 revolts.
	www.svic.lt /eng/rajonas.asp (480 words)

	Welcome to Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vilnius region is considered among the best 10 locations of Eastern Europe.
		In 1997 Vilnius hosted the Conference of 11 Presidents of the Eastern and Central Europe, which was recognized as an outstanding initiative for releasing tensions in the region.
		Lithuania boasts Vilnius University, one of the oldest universities in the region of Eastern Europe.
	www.lithill.lt /witfor?page=327 (577 words)

	Vilnius Lithuania Tourist, Travel and Hotels guide.
		Political centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th to the end of the 18th century, Vilnius has had a profound influence on the cultural and architectural development of much of eastern Europe.
		It is located in the centre of Vilnius in the most rapidly developing area of the city on the right bank of the Neris river.
		Located in the very center of Vilnius old town, the hotel ARTIS is situated in the renewed 19 th century building.You can take a walk down the streets of Vilnius old town and visit the Cathedral, Gediminas’ Tower and different museums.
	www.hotelsvilnius.com (885 words)

	Aukstaitija
		Historically, it refers to the territory of the most dominant of the original Lithuanian tribes, incorporating central Lithuania, the eastern part of the Vilnius region and Dzūkija.
		Vilnius - the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Republic of Lithuania.
		Trakai - the capital of Lithuania rivaling with Vilnius throughout the 14th and the 15th centuries.
	www.datamass.net /au/aukstaitija.html (269 words)

	ipedia.com: Vilnius County Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vilniaus apskritis County LT-VL Capital Vilnius Region Aukstaitija Area 9,651 km² Population - Total - Density 894,895 92.7/km² Vilnius County is the biggest of the 10 counties of Lithuania,...
		After WWII Vilnius County existed as a relic of prewar independent state in Lithuanian SSR for short time in 1944 - 1950.
		After reestablishment of Lithuania in 1990, Vilnius county also was reestablished in different borders in 1994.
	www.ipedia.com /vilnius_county.html (291 words)

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		Vilnius is the center of advanced technologies and of the information economy that stimulates innovations both in the country and in the whole region.
		Vilnius is a well-known center of tourism, conferences, exhibitions and entertainment.
		Vilnius’ strategy seeks to achieve prosperity not only for our capital, but all of Lithuania and smaller municipalities.
	www.arf.dk /NR/rdonlyres/e2ku7zb2x3oprku4kpx3aeib27dfcybatfnpvmjimbve4t6za7nys3fwz7el25bcsjujvi6yti6kzdwlehyp6cdqewc/UrbanDevelopmentDepartmentOfVilniusMunicipalitySeeksDanishProjectPartners.doc (214 words)

	Ziemia Sejneńska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The town was founded at the end of the XVIIth century by the Wigry Cameduls.The region was situated on the Grodno-Krolewiec route.
		The value of Vilnius are the hundreds of buildings, numerous temples and monasteries, the remains of the Vilnius castles, palaces and tenements, a huge complex of the Vilnius University buildings and the development of the Old Town city traffic.
		Niemenczyn is the largest town of the Vilnius district.
	ziemia-sejnenska.pl /cgi-local/ev.cgi (769 words)

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		In their introduction to an article on Vilnius by Liavon Lutskevich, the editors of the Belarusian journal, Neman, declared that “every nation has its Mecca,” and for Belarusians the destination of their pilgrimage must be Vilnius, for it is the “spiritual home” of the Belarusian people.
		The authors advocate making Vilnius a self-governing free city, creating a zone independent of Lithuania and Belarus under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council, and forming a bilateral commission to develop solutions to the problems of the Vilnius region to be approved by the parliaments of the two countries.
		The Poles of the Vilnius Region In the countryside surrounding Vilnius—the district of Vilnius, itself not including the city of Vilnius, the district of Salcininkai and parts of the districts of Trakai and Svenuionys—which is populated mainly by Slavic-language speakers, the people assumed a Polish national identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
	www.ut.ee /SOPL/99s/kursused/belarus.doc (5226 words)

	Lithuania: News and Political, Historical, and Economic Information Related to Lithuania
		The Seimas (parliament) of Lithuania adopted a constitution on August 1, 1922, declaring Lithuania a parliamentary republic, and in 1923 Lithuania annexed the Klaipeda region, the northern part of Lithuania Minor.
		Poland's occupation (1920) and annexation (1922) of the Vilnius region strained bilateral relations, and in March 1939 Germany forced Lithuania to surrender the Klaipeda region (the Nürnberg trials declared the treaty null and void).
		Soviet pressure and a complicated international situation forced Lithuania to sign an agreement with the USSR on October 10, 1939, by which Lithuania was given back the city of Vilnius and the part of Vilnius region seized by the Red Army during the Soviet-Polish war; in return, some 20,000 Soviet soldiers were deployed in Lithuania.
	www.russiannewsnetwork.com /lithuania.html (2282 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Poles in Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Also, the group’s geographic concentration in the Vilnius region (REGIONAL = 1, GROUPCON = 2), the historical disagreement between Poland and Lithuania over that city, as well as the supposed loyalty of Poles living in Vilnius to Poland, continue to raise fears by many Lithuanians of potential reunification with the neighboring Poland.
		Geographically concentrated in the Vilnius and Soleczniki districts (REGIONAL= 1, GROUPCON = 2), Poles of Lithuania represent a linguistically, culturally and religiously distinct group (ETHNOG = 1, LANG = 1; RELIGS1 = 1; ETHDIFXX = 3).
		In April 1919, Polish forces entered and established control over the Vilnius region of Lithuania, claiming it as historically Polish territory.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=36801 (970 words)

	Vilnius University - Law Faculty
		The Statute of Vilnius University, approved by the State Senate on December 5, 1918, established the Faculty of Social Sciences with a legal studies division and 13 departments.
		After Polish annexation of Vilnius region in 1919, the Polish Stepan Bator University was opened in Vilnius, and by the resolution of Lithuanian Government of February 13, 1922, the Lithuanian State University was established in Kaunas, where the Faculty of Laws was instituted in the second half of 1922.
		Upon resumption of Vilnius region by Lithuania, the Cabinet of Ministers of Lithuania decided to move the Faculties of Laws and Humanitarian Sciences from Kaunas to Vilnius.
	www.tf.vu.lt /index.php?fuseaction=displayHTML&file=File_1230.php&langparam=EN (325 words)

	Polish_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Polish was once a lingua franca in various regions of Central and Eastern Europe, mostly due to the political, cultural, scientific and military influence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
		In the western and northern territories, resettled in large measure by Poles from the territories annexed by the Soviet Union, the older generation speaks a dialect of Polish characteristic of the former eastern provinces.
		It is by far the most widely used minority language in the Vilniaus Apskritis (Vilnius region) (26% of the population, according to the 2001 census results), but it is also present in other apskritis.
	language.school-explorer.com /Polish (1668 words)

	INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE PLATFORM 2000- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The project shall not be aimed at the creation of a new organisational form in the Baltic Sea countries region but at the direction of focus and work of the existing structures towards the industrial heritage.
		During these excursions some places of industrial heritage were visited, such as grain mills in Vilnius, cardboard mill and dam in Kuckuriskes, Naujoji Vilnia, paper mill in Verkiai and aqua viaduct at Grigiškes paper factory.
		Puckoriai water mill is placed on the bank of the river Vilnele in Naujoji Vilnia region in Vilnius.
	www.heritage.lt /kpip/ihp.htm (1287 words)

	Vilnius (Vilna) Ghetto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lithuania and the Soviet Union signed a treaty of mutual aid, in accordance with which Vilnius and the Vilnius region were returned to Lithuania.
		Between 2,000 and 3,000 of the original 57,000 Jewish inhabitants of Vilnius survived, either in hiding, with the partisans, or in camps in Germany and Estonia, a mortality rate of approximately 95% - almost exactly corresponding with that of Lithuania as a whole.
		The 2001 census indicated that the population of Vilnius was 542,287, of whom 0.5% or about 2,700 were Jews.
	www.deathcamps.org /occupation/vilniusghetto.html (3486 words)

	Articles - Lithuania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of the three Baltic States along the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland to the south, and the Kaliningrad Oblast (region) of Russia to the southwest.
		From the outset, territorial disputes with Poland (over the Vilnius region and the Suvalkai region) and Germany (over the KlaipÄ—da region, German: Memelland) plagued the new nation.
		Poles are the largest minority, mostly concentrated in southeast Lithuania (the Western Vilnius region).
	www.ezorange.com /articles/Lithuania (1844 words)

	Aukstaitija
		Auktaitija is the name of historical region in Lithuania, close to borders with Latvia and Belarus.
		It includes central Lithuania, the eastern part of the Vilnius region and Dzūkija.
		All Lithuania’s most important cultural and political centers are (or have been) in this region: Vilnius - the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Republic of Lithuania.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/au/aukstaitija.html (184 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Vilnius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		VILNIUS â“ A Vilnius district court ruled to extradite the former manager of the Stavropol branch of a Yukos-owned bank to Russia.
		VILNIUS â“ An interdepartmental commission investigating the crash of Russian Su-27 fighter in Lithuanian territory was held at a military headquarters on...
		VILNIUS - A new regional alliance of nations aiming to reinvigorate the economic and democratic integration of Eastern Europe was formed last weekend on the...
	www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Vilnius.htm (12602 words)

	The Polish-Lithuanian Crisis of 1938
		In the occupied region, the families of Polish military men began to leave for Poland in anticipation of war.
		Two divisions, one from the Warsaw I Corps, the other from the III Corps, were moved into position in the Vilnius region prior to the presentation of the ultimatum.
		Polish demonstrations in the Vilnius region and Poland were closely monitored by the military.
	www.lituanus.org /1984_2/84_2_03.htm (10742 words)

	Tautinių bendrijų namai
		Responsibilities: providing of information, work with a purpose group, employers and educational institutions in Vilnius City and Vilnius Region, analysis, summarizing, evaluation and distribution of stored information, influence on politics and practice.
		Responsibilities: work with a purpose group in Šalčininkai Region and Vilnius Region, development of cooperation networks, data collection.
		Vilnius Department of The Union of Poles of Lithuania
	www.tbn.lt /en?id=25 (250 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lithuania - Independence, 1918-40 - The Soviet Republic \| Lithuanian Information Resource
		Lithuania refused to have diplomatic relations with Poland until 1938 on the grounds that Poland illegally held the Vilnius region.
		The city and region of Klaipeda (Memel in German) had been under German rule for 700 years.
		In return, the city of Vilnius, now occupied by Soviet troops, was granted to Lithuania.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/lithuania/lithuania13.html (1594 words)

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