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
Few years ago Poland's Reno was a small Calvinist church in Wilno.
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
Vilna on our maps; Wilno is the Polish spelling.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall
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