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Coordinates: 54º41'N 25º19' E 1920-1939 Province: Vilna (provincial capital) Jewish population in 1931: 55,006 1900-1917: Russia 1918-1920: Disputed between Germany, Lithuania, Poland, and Soviet Russia. 1920-1939: Poland 1939-1940: Lithuania 1940-1941: USSR 1941-1944: Occupied by Germany as part of Reichskommissariat Ostland 1944-1991: USSR 1991- : Lithuania Vilna was one of the major centers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. It was famous as a center of Yiddish culture and was known as Yerushalayim D'Litah (Lithuanian Jerusalem). Languages spoken and used: Polish, German, Hebrew, Lithuania, Russian, and Yiddish. (en-US)

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Webster's Geographical Dictionary. Springfield: G.&C. Merriam Co., 1969. p. 1220

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• Vilna (Polonia : Voivodship)