Vilnius (/ ˈvɪlniəs / ⓘ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ⓘ) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,404, [7] and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864. [8]

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Wilna is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States. The population was 5,732 at the 2020 census. [4][2] The town is on the eastern side of the county and is east of Watertown. The town was first settled around 1798 at the location of the future village of Carthage.

Vilna is now a vast Jewish graveyard to the remembrance of what once was a remarkably vibrant center of Jewish life. There were millions of characters of different fonts in that printing masterpiece so that 12,000 typos was really no big deal.

5 days ago · Vilnius, city, capital and largest city of Lithuania, at the confluence of the Neris (Russian: Viliya) and Vilnia rivers. Vilnius: old town section Old town section of Vilnius, Lithuania. A fortification existed on the site in the 10th century, but it did not begin to develop as a town until the 13th century.

Wilna is a historical spelling of the name of the city of Vilnius. Wilna may also refer to: Wilna, New York, a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States; Wilna Hervey (1894 – 1979), an American silent film actress and artist; Wilna Adriaanse (born 1958), South African Afrikaans romantic fiction writer

The town of Vilna (in Lithuanian, Vilnius, and occasionally also known as Wilna) was founded at the beginning of the 14th century, approximately in the year 1320. Very rapidly, it became a central town in Lithuania, both as its strategic and commercial headquarters.

Ancient Lithuanian city, capital of the district of the same name; situated on the rivers Vilia and Vileika, about 200 miles southeast from Libau on the Baltic, and 436 miles southwest from St. Petersburg. A Jewish settlement existed there in the fourteenth century.

Mar 29, 2017 · Wilne, as it was called by its Jewish population, was the biggest Jewish city of the time. In the 18th century it was known as a religious centre and even called the “Jerusalem of the North”, despite anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish attacks.

The rabbinic school or yeshibah, founded in 1847, but closed in 1873, was one of the most prominent in eastern Europe. Wilna is distinguished not only by its rabbis but also by the large number of eminent Hebrew scholars who have been born or have resided there.