Vilnius region

The government did not have power in the Vilnius Region, under control of a different army group.

It constitutes about one third of the total Vilnius Region.

Russia recognized Lithuania's independence and its right to the Vilnius region.

This border divides the Vilnius Region into two parts: western and eastern.

The three armies met in the Vilnius Region.

Poles are concentrated in the Vilnius region.

The Vilnius Region remained under Polish administration until 1939.

League of Nations interfered and the fighting stopped, but the disputes over the Vilnius region were not resolved.

Competing claims to the Vilnius region led to armed conflict and deteriorating relations in the interwar period.

The 1916 German census of the Vilnius Region, however, reported strikingly different numbers.

Further escalation by either side was cut short by the Soviet occupation of Vilnius region two weeks later.

Future of the Vilnius Region caused frictions between political and military leaders in Lithuania.

As a self-identification, it persisted in Lithuania's Vilnius Region into the late 20th century.

For a few months in mid-1920 he was the chief Lithuanian commissioner in the Vilnius Region.

Vilnija takes an interest in the political situation of the Lithuanians of the Vilnius region.

The treaty made not a single reference to Vilnius or the Vilnius Region.

Thus the line was incomplete, did not provide protection to the Vilnius Region, but indicated it would be left on the Lithuanian side.

Sašenko was born into Polish-Ukrainian family from the Vilnius Region.

They pushed east and north, entering Vilnius Region, the territory claimed by Lithuanians.

The authorities in the Vilnius region were ordered to remove the signs in the Polish language within a month.

Between 1955 and 1959, another 46,000 Poles left Lithuania (see the Ethnic history of the Vilnius region).

Polish-Lithuanian relations during the interbellum period were strained since both sides had laid claim to the Vilnius region.

However, after the Polish takeover of the Vilnius Region he moved to Kaunas.

By agreeing to the negotiations, the Poles sought to buy time and distract attention from the Vilnius Region.

Lithuanians proceeded to "re-Lithuanize" cultural life in Vilnius Region.