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]

维尔纽斯（立陶宛语：Vilnius；俄语：Вильнюс； 波兰语：Wilno；德语：Wilna）位于立陶宛的东南部，是 立陶宛 的首都和第一大城市,同时也是立陶宛的政治、经济、金融和文化中心。 [5] 该市始建于公元13世纪，位于市中心的老城（360公顷）是东欧国家中面积最大的老城之一，1994年被 联合国教科文组织 列为 世界文化遗产。 维尔纽斯市面积401平方公里，现有人口58.1万，占立陶宛全国总人口的16%。 [4-5] 维尔纽斯市是立陶宛的 金融中心，各大银行和保险公司的总部都设 …

On June 22, 1941, Germany attacked Soviet forces in eastern Europe. The German army occupied Vilna on June 24, 1941, the third day after the invasion. In July 1941, the German military administration issued a series of anti-Jewish decrees.

The Vilna Ghetto [a] was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland.

Vilna was the heart of Jewish scholarship and set the tone for the moderate, scholarly, and moral Lithuanian Jewish community. Jewish Vilna was destroyed twice in the 1940s. It was first destroyed by the Soviets who, under the terms of the German-Russian pact of non-belligerence of 1939, swallowed up Lithuania and installed a puppet Communist ...

Known in the Jewish world as "the Jerusalem of Vilna", it was a community of rabbis and gifted Talmudic scholars, intellectuals, poets, authors, artists, craftspeople and educators - a spiritual center of the first order. On 22 June 1941, the Germans invaded Soviet territory and …

2025年3月19日 · 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.

Vilna was a world center for Yiddish culture, and a Yiddish daily and evening press, numerous weekly and other political, literary, educational, and scientific journals were published there. The Jewish historical and ethnographical society, founded by S.

Vilna was a world center for Yiddish culture, and a Yiddish daily and evening press, numerous weekly and other political, literary, educational, and scientific journals were published there. The Jewish historical and ethnographical society, founded by S.

From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Vilna was one of the most important centers of the Haskalah movement in Eastern Europe. In its earliest stages, the Vilna Haskalah arose spontaneously, supported by local merchant families such as the Rosenthals, the Klatzkos, the Blochs, and the Katzenellenbogens.