Crossword clues for vilna
Wikipedia
Vilna may refer to:
Places
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Vilnius, capital of Lithuania (Vilna in several languages)
- Vilna Ghetto, a World War II ghetto established by Nazi Germany in Vilnius
- Vilnia River, a river in Lithuania
- Vilna Governorate, a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire
- Vilna, Alberta, a village in Canada
Other uses:
- Vilna Gaon, a prominent rabbi, Talmud scholar, and Kabbalist
- Vilna Troupe, one of the most famous theatrical companies in the history of Yiddish theater
- Vilna Group, a circle of Jewish Social-Democrats founded in the mid-1890s
- Vilna Edition Shas, one of the most common printed editions of the Talmud
- Battle of Wilno (disambiguation), aka Battle of Vilna
- Treaty of Vilna (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "vilna".
The Emperor was in very good spirits after his ride through Vilna, where crowds of people had rapturously greeted and followed him.
But he came originally, his proponent said, from Vilna, the holy city of Jewish Europe, a place known, in spite of its reputation for hardheadedness, to harbor men who took a cordial and sympathetic view of golems.
There were other minor extermination camps near Riga, Vilna, Minsk, Kaunas and Lwow, but they were distinguished from the main ones in that they killed by shooting rather than by gas.
German advance was far to the north, where Von Buelow was profiting by the fall of Kovno, marching on Mitau and Riga, and threatening both to cut the railway between Vilna and Petrograd and confine the Russian retreat to congested and narrow lines of communication along which they could not escape.
British and French general staffs think that the Red Army can move across Poland, and in particular through the Vilna gap and across Galicia in order to make contact with the enemy?
From Orsha they fled farther along the road to Vilna, still playing at blindman's buff with the pursuing army.
The real /Master/ to whom all is permitted storms Toulon, makes a massacre in Paris, /forgets/ an army in Egypt, /wastes/ half a million men in the Moscow expedition and gets off with a jest at Vilna.