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Wilno

[veel-naw]

noun

  1. Polish name of Vilnius.



Wilno

/ ˈviːlnɔ /

noun

  1. the Polish name for Vilnius

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After the war, the family settled in Wilno—now Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, but at the time a majority-Polish city.

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Before the war Vilnius - Wilno to give it its Polish name, Vilna in the days of Russian imperial rule - was a part of northeast Poland.

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Police said all the victims in the shooting in ­Wilno were women.

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In this year he became the leader of a considerable literary movement in Wilno.

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A few weeks ago a very fine ballad was given me at Wilno—an historical one....

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