Wilno
Americannoun
noun
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Postwar Poland, newly independent after more than a century of tsarist rule, experienced a sudden surge of chauvinist pride and annexed much of Lithuania, including Wilno.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
In the initial chaos, he fled Warsaw and took a circuitous route back to Wilno, which was momentarily free, because Lithuania was still independent.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
Who could forget "The Great Wilno," a leather-clad stuntman who in 1929 was shot out of a cannon over the heads of startled spectators.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gaon Street, named for Gaon Rabbi Elijah, the 18th-Century miracle-working rabbi of Wilno, was deserted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our new Poland would not comprise the ancient Lithuania—the districts of Wilno, Kovno, and Grodno—although Lithuania formerly was part of Poland and still has about one million Polish inhabitants who form the aristocracy and bourgeoisie.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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