Statue of Adam Mickiewicz

'O Lithuania, my country' poem by Adam Mickiewicz

Asia Sychla recited the poem 'O Lithuania, my country' from Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz. Asia is part of PIAST, the Polish Folk Song and Dance Ensemble of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America (PRCUA). She performed at the rededication of a monument to Adam Mickiewicz in the Polish Cultural Garden in Cleveland Ohio.

Vilnius, City Walk - Lithuania 4K Travel Channel

The starting point for our city walk is the Cathedral of St. Stanislaus. This time take a look inside, where a Holy Mass just takes place
From the cathedral, we continue to the funicular tramway which brings us to the Gediminas mountain. We pass the National Museum of Lithuania, in front of which stands a monument to the Grand Duke Mindaugas. He is regarded as the founder of Lithuania and even received the royal crown at the instigation of Pope Innocent IV, in 1253. He was murdered in 1263 because he had lost the support of the population.
From the top of Gediminas Mountain, we have a wonderful panoramic view over Vilnius. Countless churches determine the cityscape. The steepness of the flanks of the mountain gives a sense of how difficult it was for attackers to take over the fortress. Gediminas' Tower on the mountain now houses a museum and is the landmark of Vilnius.
Back at the foot of the mountain we go back to the cathedral and pass the castle. From there we turn into Pilies gatve. It is the main shopping street and the tourist center of Vilnius.
Along the street you find plenty of restaurants and shops. Approximately in the middle of the road, the Literary Street branches off to the left.
Innumerable bookstores and antiquarians lined the narrow lane once. The Lithuanian writer Adam Mickiewicz also lived here temporarily.
Egle Vertelkaite, the curator of the Modern Art Center, launched the project Literatų Street in 2009. About 150 artists pay homage to writers and poets who influenced Lithuanian literature. Therefore they created on the house walls about 200 tiles and plaques made of different materials, such as ceramics, wood, or glass. Also some unknown literati are immortalized here.
The road ends at the Cathedral of the Theotokos in the Maironio gatve.
From here it is only a few steps to Uzupio gatve. The bridge over the Vilnia leads to Uzupis, one of the oldest districts of Vilnius. After Lithuania's independence, it became more and more of a bohemian district. In 1997, the artists proclaimed the independent Republic of Uzupis.
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Ausgangspunkt für unseren Stadtspaziergang in Vilnius ist die Kathedrale St. Stanislaus. Diesmal werfen einen Blick hinein, wo gerade eine Messe stattfindet.
Von der Kathedrale gehen wir weiter zur Schrägseilbahn die uns auf den Gediminas-Berg bringt. Dabei passieren wir das Nationalmuseum von Litauen, vor dem ein Denkmal des Großfürsten Mindaugas steht. Er gilt als Gründer Litauens und erhielt auf Veranlassung von Papst Innozenz IV im Jahre 1253 sogar die Königskrone. 1263 wurde er ermordet, da er den Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung verloren hatte.
Oben auf dem Gediminas-Berg angekommen, bietet sich uns ein herrlicher Panoramablick über Vilnius. Unzählige Kirchen bestimmen das Stadtbild. Die Steilheit der Flanken des Berges vermittelt ein Gefühl wie schwer es Angreifer hatten, die Festung einzunehmen. Der Gediminas-Turm auf dem Berg beinhaltet heute ein Museum und ist das Wahrzeichen von Vilnius.
Zurück am Fuß des Berges gehen wir zurück zur Kathedrale und passieren das Schloss. Von dort biegen wir in die Pilies gatve ein. Sie ist die Haupteinkaufstrasse und das touristische Zentrum von Vilnius.
Zahlreiche Restaurants und Geschäfte säumen die Straße. Ungefähr in der Mitte des Verlaufs zweigt die Literatenstraße links ab.
Einst reihten sich in der schmalen Gasse unzählige Buchhandlungen und Antiquariate. Aber auch der litauische Schriftsteller Adam Mickiewicz lebte zeitweise hier.
Egle Vertelkaite, Kuratorin des Modern Art Center startete 2009 das Projekt Literatų Straße. Etwa 150 Künstler erinnern an bedeutende litauische Schriftsteller und Dichter. Hierzu schufen sie an den Hauswänden ca. 200 Kacheln und Gedenktafeln aus verschiedenen Materialien, wie Keramik, Holz, oder Glas. Auch einige unbekannte Literaten sind hier verewigt.
Die Straße mündet bei der Kathedrale der Himmelfahrt der Gottesmutter in die Maironio gatve.
Von hier aus sind es nur wenige Schritte zur Uzupio gatve. Die Brücke über die Vilnia führt nach Uzupis, einem der ältesten Viertel von Vilnius. Nach der Unabhängigkeit Litauens entwickelte es sich mehr und mehr zum Künstlerviertel. 1997 wurde Uzupis von den Künstlern zu unabhängigen Republik Uzupis erklärt.
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EBU Lithuania marked 30th anniversary of first unsanctioned rally of the Soviet period

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A rally was held on August 23, 1987, near the monument to poet Adomas Mickevicius (Adam Mickiewicz). Its purpose was to mark the 48th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop secret protocols that divided Eastern Europe among totalitarian Nazi Germany and Soviet Union.

‘We gather here to remember victims of Stalin and Hitler,’ at the beginning of the rally said Nijole Sadunaite, who was one of the organizers.

It was the first rally unsanctioned by the Soviet authorities during the entire Soviet occupation period and the first public anti-Soviet demonstration after the Spring of Kaunas in 1972.

‘It was not the day when the Movement has started, but the Movement was encouraged to start’, after commemorating the event said Vytautas Landsbergis, who was the first Head of State after Lithuania broke away from Soviet Union three years later after the rally in 1990.

The gathering of 1987 was sharply denounced in the official press and closely watched by the police, but it was not interrupted and showed that the ice in Soviet Union started to break.

‘Clearly, we could not expect anything like this. It looked like fantasies and fairytales’, said Vytautas Bogusis, who was one the organizers.

Two years later, in 1989, on the same day of August 23, around 2 million in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia joined hands in a 650-kilometer-long human chain stretching from Tallinn to Vilnius to mark 50 years since the signing of the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact. It was the peak of people’s Movements in the Baltics which later broke away from Soviet Union and started the process which brought down Soviet Empire.

‘Back in 1990 we did not understand that we must write a history book together with Russian historians’, now regrets Petras Vaitiekunas, one of signatories of the Act that broke Lithuania away from Soviet Union in 1990.

'Because it was clear for us like two plus two are four that Stalinism is on the same criminal scale as Nazism, however, in Russia, even back then it was not so clear, and now the idea is deepening that Stalinism was a great thing worth replicating’, said Vaitiekunas.

August 23 is marked in Lithuania as the Day of Black Ribbon and Baltic Way.
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Archive shots from 1987

1987-08-23, Sound bite (Lithuanian), NIJOLE SADUNAITE, one of the organizers of the demonstration: We gather here to remember victims of Stalin and Hitler. They (Communist authorities) must not slander foreign countries, they should look at themselves, it is said that you try to lubricate the other with what you yourself stink.

Sound bite (Lithuanian), VYTAUTAS BOGUSIS, one of the organizers of the demonstration: Clearly, we could not expect anything like this. It looked like fantasies and fairytales. We only thought if we manage to gather enough people. And the miracle happened. The nation always had a hope of independence.

Sound bite (Lithuanian), VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS, first head of state after Lithuania broke from Soviet Union in 1990: It was not the day when the Movement has started. But the Movement was encouraged to start.

Sound bite (Lithuanian), PETRAS VAITIEKUNAS, one of signatories of the act that broke Lithuania from Soviet Union in 1990: Back in 1990 we did not understand that we must write a history book together with Russian historians. Because it was clear for us like two plus two are four that Stalinism is on the same criminal scale as Nazism. It was so clear. However, in Russia, even back then it was not so clear, and now the idea is deepening that Stalinism was a great thing worth replicating.

The last archive shots are from 1989, Baltic way

Performance - Adam Mickiewicz

Performance théâtre et vidéo autour de la statue d'Adam Mickiewicz par Bourdelle.

Adam Mickiewicz Müzesi-Adam Mickiewicz Museum

#AdamMickiewiczMüzesi,#AdamMickiewiczMuseum,#AdamMickiewicz
Polonya’lı özgürlük şairi Adam Mickiewicz’in hayatının son yıllarını geçirdiği ve 1855’te öldüğü Tarlabaşı’ndaki evi, şairin ölümünün 100. yıldönümü olan 1955`te Polonya Kültür ve Sanat Bakanlığı ile işbirliği yapılarak müzeye dönüştürülmüştür.

Müzede Mickiewicz’in hayatı ve eserleri ile ilgili bilgi ve belgeler, şairin İstanbul’da geçirdiği yıllara ait fotoğraflar ve Polonya özgürlük mücadelesine ait belge ve fotoğraflar bulunmaktadır. Binanın bodrum katında ise mezarı Krakow’da bulunan Mickiewicz’e ait sembolik bir mezar vardır.

#kaunasbiennial2017 | Jonas Oškinis ir Raimundas Krukonis

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A. Mickevičiaus g. 56, Kaunas

Didysis lenkų ir lietuvių (ar kieno?) poetas romantikas Adomas Mickevičius (1798–1855), keletą metų gyvenęs Kaune, šioje vietoje buvusiame name.

Mūsų Mickevičius yra matęs tarpukario Vilniuje didelį medinį Mickevičiaus skulptūros maketą, kurį nunešė pavasario potvynio vandenys, jis matė ir granite parimusį Mickevičių prie Šv. Onos bažnyčios, ir netvarkingai sudėliotas „Vėlinių“ stelas, kurios turėjo būti kito Mickevičiaus paminklo postamente – toje vietoje, kur paskui buvo Černiachovskis, o dabar stovi Kudirka. Mūsų Mickevičius yra lankęsis ir Neonų muziejuje Varšuvoje. Mūsų Mickevičius – tai XX amžiaus neono invazija į XXI amžiaus Kauną. Ar jis žino, kur jis yra? Jūs esate čia.

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A. Mickevičiaus g. 56, Kaunas

The great Polish-Lithuanian (or Lithuanian-Polish?) romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), who lived in Kaunas for several years in a house that once stood on this spot.

Our Mickiewicz has seen a large wooden model for a Mickiewicz monument in interwar Vilnius that was destroyed by the spring floods, he has seen a pensive Mickiewicz made of granite next to St. Anne’s Church, and a pile of the “Dziady” reliefs to be installed in the base of another Mickiewicz monument – in the same place where bronze Chernyakhovsky was later erected and now stands a monument to Kudirka. Our Mickiewicz has also been to the Neon Museum in Warsaw. Our Mickiewicz is a 20th century neon invasion into the 21st century Kaunas. Does he know where he is? You are here.

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Valhalla Polish Festival.

Presentation by Banner of Jasna Gora XVII Century Living History group dedicated to study of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Polish Hussaria.

Wise Conference Vilnius December 2015

Vilnius Conference: 10-11 December 2015
Past and future issues and challenges of prevention of international crimes and rise of intolerance

Reaffirming the memory and lessons of the Second World War given its relevance for European integration and security today.

Scope

Causes of conflict e.g. xenophobia, ideology;
People and identity e.g. refugees, multiculturalism;
Territory e.g. territorial integrity, annexation;
International Law and justice.


The Colonial Peoples in World War II: Victor’s History?
Dr. Radha D’Souza
University of Westminster (Great Britain)

Similarities and Parallels: Second World War and Contemporary European Refugees
Dr. Paresh Kathrani
University of Westminster (Great Britain)

The lessons of WWII and annexation of Crimea
Prof. Dr. Dainius Žalimas
Vilnius University (Lithuania)

International Criminal Court facing the peace vs. justice dilemma
Prof. Habil dr. Bartlomiej Krzan
University of Wroclaw (Poland)

The International Criminal Court – A success story of State cooperation?
Dr. Ignaz Stegmiller
Giessen University (Germany)

The Prosecution of Nazi Criminals in the Post-WW II Period as a Lesson for Re-defining the Concept of Statute of Limitation in Cases of Crimes under International Law
Dr. David Kohout
Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)

Cumulation of Offenses in International Criminal Law: A Troublesome Inheritance of the Second World War
Prof. Dr. Fulvio Maria Palombino
University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

Vasiliauskas v. Lithuania case: battle or the war lost?
Dr. Justinas Žilinskas
Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania)

Protection of women’s rights in armed conflict - any lessons from the World War II?
Dr. Natalia Buchowska
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)

Effectiveness of the lessons learned from WW2 by the ECtHR: the example of the control over states’ participation to armed conflicts
Dr. Marine Toullier
Rouen University (France)

Civil action for damages caused by war crimes: scope and constraints
Dr. Francesco De Santis
University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

Responsibility to Protect. Balancing national interests and international values
Tomasz Lewandowski
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)

Lithuania Loves Poland

Councilman Brancatelli at Mickiewicz bust in Polish Cultural Garden

Polish Cultural Garden delegate Gary Kotlarsic introduced Cleveland Slavic Village Councilman Anthony Brancatelli at the rededication of a monument to Adam Mickiewicz in the Polish Cultural Garden in Cleveland Ohio. Councilman Brancatelli spoke of the importance of the Polish community and all of the gardens in the Cultural Garden family.

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Scenes from the Polish Festival at Federation Square, Melbourne - Sunday 21st November 2010

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To understand Ukraine / Lithuanian politician Rolandas Paulauskas

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On August 23, 1987 the Lithuanian Freedom League held a rally in a square near the church and the monument of Adam Mickiewicz to protest the ongoing Soviet occupation, which was broken up by the militia.

Lithuania was the first of the Baltic States where the movement now known as the Singing Revolution appeared. The ancient Baltic tradition of singing folk songs became an act of political protest when the independence movement was rekindled in the mid-1980s. Later, hundreds of thousands regularly gathered in public places across Lithuania and sang national songs and Catholic hymns. The popularity of patriotic songs had risen significantly during this period. Many popular singers had followed this trend, often adapting the poetry of the national poets, such as Bernardas Brazdžionis or Justinas Marcinkevičius, to the lyrics of their songs. Some of these, most notably Laisvė (Freedom) by Eurika Masytė, retained their popularity for decades to come.

Vilnius University Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy | Wikipedia audio article

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00:02:31 1 History
00:02:40 1.1 Changes of the name
00:05:08 1.2 History by period
00:05:17 1.2.1 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
00:09:26 1.2.2 Partitions
00:11:45 1.2.3 1918-1939
00:15:36 1.2.4 World War II
00:19:20 1.2.5 Soviet period (1945-1990)
00:21:03 1.2.6 After 1990
00:21:38 2 Status today
00:22:22 2.1 Structure
00:22:31 2.1.1 Faculties
00:23:23 2.1.2 Other Divisions
00:24:00 2.2 Campus
00:24:53 2.3 Ranking
00:25:46 2.4 Projects
00:29:05 2.5 International relations
00:30:25 3 People
00:30:34 3.1 Nobel Prize winners
00:30:49 3.2 Notable professors and alumni of Vilnius University
00:31:04 4 See also



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Vilnius University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas; former names exist) is the oldest university in the Baltic states and one of the oldest in Northern Europe. It is the largest university in Lithuania.
The university was founded in 1579 as the Jesuit Academy (College) of Vilnius by Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, Stephen Báthory. It was the third oldest university (after the Cracow Academy and the Albertina) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the aftermath of the Third Partition of Poland (1795) and the November Uprising (1830–1831), the university was closed down and suspended its operation until 1919. In the aftermath of World War I the university saw failed attempts to restart it by Lithuania (December 1918) and invading Soviet forces (March 1919). It finally resumed operations as Stefan Batory University in Poland (August 1919), a period followed by another Soviet occupation in 1920, and the less than two-years of the Republic of Central Lithuania, incorporated into Poland in 1922.
Following Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, the university was briefly administered by the Lithuanian authorities (from October 1939), and then after Soviet annexation of Lithuania (June 1940), punctuated by a period of German occupation after German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941–1944), administrated as Vilnius State University by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1945 the Polish community of students and scholars of Stefan Batory University was transferred to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it resumed its status as one of the prominent universities in Lithuania.
The wide-ranging Vilnius University ensemble represents all major architectural styles that predominated in Lithuania: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism.

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History: UKRAINE

Crimea:
Cossacks helped Russia get Crimea from Turkey 39:43
Donbas (East) 56:55
Crimea turned over to Ukraine 2:16:28
Russia 12:46 / 31:16

UKRAINE - THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2008) / A Jerzy Hoffman Film

1:34 Kyiv (401 - 500)
2:16 Byzantium (330–1453)
2:45 Princess Olga (890 - 969) adopted Christianity
3:28 Chersonesus in Crimea
4:06 Volodymyr the Great (958 - 1015)
4:29 Prince Yaroslav the Wise (978 - 1054)
4:39 Saint Sophia's Cathedral (1100)
5:31 Anna the Queen of France (1030 – 1075)
6:41 Volodymyr II Monomakh (1053-1125)
7:20 Yuri Dolgorukiy (1099 - 1157)
7:26 Moscow
7:37 The Mongols
10:16 The Principality of Galicia–Volhynia or Kingdom of Rus

10:49 Lviv
12:37 Ivan III of Russia (1440-1505)
12:46 The myth about Russia
13:07 Crimea

13:53 Roxolana (1502 – 1558)

15:20 serfdom (Polish oppression)
15:40 printing press
17:14 Zaporizhian Sich
18:33 Ukraine replaces the name Rus
18:40 cossack
20:15 Brest Union
20:18 The uniates
21:08 Hetman Sagaidachny (1570 - 1622)
23:05 Orthodoxy
23:28 Yarema Vyshnevetsky (1612 – 1651)
23:31 Catholicism
24:54 Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595 – 1657)
30:04 The Pereyaslav Council -------------------------------------------------1654
34:39 Ivan Mazepa (1639 - 1709)
37:06 The Battle of Poltava on 27 June 1709
40:11 Zaporizhian Sich (1552-1709)
40:27 Solovki
French Revolution--------------------------------------------------------------------- 1789
47:03 Dumy - historical ballads
48:18 Greek Catholic Church banned
48:49 Kyiv University (1833)
49:48 The Order of Basilian Fathers
50:55 Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861) (age 47)
54:57 Blue and yellow banner
55:45 The Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood
56:32 national liberation movement
56:55 Crimean War ----------------------------------------------------- 1853 to 1856
57:07 Alexander II (1818 - 1881) abolished serfdom
57:26 city of Donetsk (1868)
58:56 Green wedge

59:23 Volodymyr Antonovych (1834 - 1908)
59:28 Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841-1895 )
1:00:42 Lesya Ukrainka (1871 - 1913) (aged 42)
1:02:13 The Shevchenko Scientific Society (1873 )
1:11:03 Mykhailo Hrushevsky
1:03:27 Ivan Franko (1856 - 1916)
1:04:22 History of Ukraine-Ruthenia
1:04:49 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865 - 1944) 1:45:42

1:06:31 World War I------------------------------------------------------------------1914
1:07:32 Dmitro Dontsov (1883 - 1973)
1:07:57 (1914) Russian occupation
1:11:24 Symon Petliura
1:11:24 West Ukrainian People's Republic
1:19:27 Ukrainian Galician Army
1:23:30 Nestor Makhno
1:30:48 The Russian famine ----------------------------------------------------1921
1:41:21 Ukr National Democratic Alliance, (UNDO)
1:42:20 Ukr Sich Riflemen
1:42:43 (UVO) Ukr Military Organization
1:42:51 Yevhen Konovalets
1:43:10 Dmytro Dontsov
1:44:01 The Organization of Ukr Nationalists (OUN)

1:44:52 (1933) Stepan Bandera head of OUN


1:47:07 Avgustyn Voloshyn
1:47:33 Melnyk's and Bandera's

1:39:06 collectivization (1939)
1:38:55 *** ???????????????????????????? ????????????????: !!! ???????????????????? 1:39:33
World War II ----------------------------------------------------------------(1939 - 1945)
1:51:24 The Nachtigall Battalion (Nightingale)
1:51:43 Independent Ukr State
1:44:50 Stepan Bandera (1909 – 1959) -----------------------------------1933

Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II

Wehrmacht Saves Innocent Civilians In Ukraine 1941

1:53:42 Babi Yar
1:55:40 partisan warfare
1:44:01 Organization of Ukr Nationalists (OUN)
1:57:42 Roman Shukhevych

1:58:37 Volyn
1:58:57 UPA - Ukrainian Insurgent Army
2:00:04 ethnic cleansing (1943)
2:02:32 SS Galicia Division
2:02:33 Banderavists (Bandera) split of OUN (former UVO) 1:47:26
2:02:25 Melnykovites (Melnyk)
2:02:57 SS Galicia crushed by the Red Army
2:04:51 Nikita Khrushchev
2:05:21 Joseph Stalin
1:39:56 RUSYN replaced the term Ukrainian
2:06:14 Gulag
2:06:31 Yalta
2:10:30 Operation Vistula (Polish: Akcja Wisła)

2:12:00 The Greek Catholic Church abolishment
2:12:21 Josyf Slipyj (1893 - 1984)
1:49:25 annexation of the Western Ukraine
2:16:33 turning Crimea over to Ukraine
2:18:25 Thaw (early 1950s to the early 1960s)
2:30:09 (April 26 1986) - Chornobyl disaster
2:35:30 Rukh - Movement
2:37:29 (1991) Declaration of Sovereignty of Ukraine
1:13:48 The Ukr People's Republic of 1918 - 1920
2:50:29 The Orange Revolution (2004)

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00:02:46 1 History
00:02:55 1.1 Changes of the name
00:05:40 1.2 History by period
00:05:49 1.2.1 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
00:10:22 1.2.2 Partitions
00:12:55 1.2.3 1918-1939
00:17:06 1.2.4 World War II
00:21:11 1.2.5 Soviet period (1945-1990)
00:23:03 1.2.6 After 1990
00:23:40 2 Status today
00:24:26 2.1 Structure
00:24:35 2.1.1 Faculties
00:25:30 2.1.2 Other Divisions
00:26:11 2.2 Campus
00:27:08 2.3 Ranking
00:28:04 2.4 Projects
00:31:37 2.5 International relations
00:33:03 3 People
00:33:12 3.1 Nobel Prize winners
00:33:29 3.2 Notable professors and alumni of Vilnius University
00:33:44 4 See also



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Vilnius University (Lithuanian: Vilniaus universitetas; former names exist) is the oldest university in the Baltic states and one of the oldest in Northern Europe. It is the largest university in Lithuania.
The university was founded in 1579 as the Jesuit Academy (College) of Vilnius by Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, Stephen Báthory. It was the third oldest university (after the Cracow Academy and the Albertina) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the aftermath of the Third Partition of Poland (1795) and the November Uprising (1830–1831), the university was closed down and suspended its operation until 1919. In the aftermath of World War I the university saw failed attempts to restart it by Lithuania (December 1918) and invading Soviet forces (March 1919). It finally resumed operations as Stefan Batory University in Poland (August 1919), a period followed by another Soviet occupation in 1920, and the less than two-years of the Republic of Central Lithuania, incorporated into Poland in 1922.
Following Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, the university was briefly administered by the Lithuanian authorities (from October 1939), and then after Soviet annexation of Lithuania (June 1940), punctuated by a period of German occupation after German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941–1944), administrated as Vilnius State University by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1945 the Polish community of students and scholars of Stefan Batory University was transferred to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it resumed its status as one of the prominent universities in Lithuania.
The wide-ranging Vilnius University ensemble represents all major architectural styles that predominated in Lithuania: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism.