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