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  1. Capital of Lithuanian Republic, USSR;
  2. population (1987) 566,000. Industries include
  3. engineering and the manufacture of textiles,
  4. chemicals, and foodstuffs. From a
  5. 10th-century settlement, Vilnius became the
  6. Lithuanian capital 1323 and a centre of
  7. Polish and Jewish culture. It was then Polish
  8. from 1386 until the Russian annexation 1795.
  9. Claimed by both Poland and Lithuania after
  10. World War I, it was given to Poland 1921,
  11. occupied by the USSR 1939, and immediately
  12. transferred to Lithuania. Its university was
  13. founded 1578.
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