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The Vilna (Wilno) voivodship was located in northeastern Poland between the wars, with the capital city in Vilna (Wilno), and bordered the voivodships of Bialystok and Nowogródek and the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR. The area had been a part of the Russian empire and after WWI, was disputed between the USSR, Poland, and Lithuania. In 1922, it became a voivodship of Poland. Jews began to settle in the city of Vilna in the 16th century and it became a center for rabbinical scholarship, and Yiddish language culture, Zionism, and political activity. In 1939, the Soviet Union occupied the city and the area was annexed by Lithuania, which was then incorporated in the USSR. The Germans occupied Vilna from June 1941 to the summer of 1944. Significant Jewish resistance took place in the forests near Vilna, extending into the neighboring Nowogródek voivodship, but most of the Jewish population perished in the Holocaust, through mass executions, ghettoization, and deportations to camps. After the war, most of the voivodship was incorporated into Lithuanian SSR and a small part went to the Belorussian SSR (Belarus). Vilna was renamed Vilnius. 1900-1917: Russia 1918-1921: Disputed between Soviet Russia, Poland and Lithuania 1922-1939: Poland 1939-1940: Annexed by Lithuania 1940-1941: Annexed by the USSR 1941-1944: Occupied by Germany (Reichskommissariat Ostland) 1944: Liberated by Soviet Army 1945-1991: USSR (Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic) 1992- : Lithuania and Belarus (en-US)

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Rzeczpospolita Polska: Podzial Administracyjny z Dnia 1 Kwietnia 1939 Roku. (M1.02)1:2,000,000. Wykonano w Referacie kartograficznym Gl. Urz. St.

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• (PIQ) Polonia

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• Vilna (Polonia)