Wilno je Polska

[Dacul]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_...Baltic_peoples
I think that actually Poland are mostly Balts,but they are speaking Slavic language.
So Vilnius is actually Lithuanian,it was even founded by Lithuanians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius#Early_history

[tiger]

The picture say it all

[Meow]

Just by reading the thread's title I knew it was ... trolling time

On the serious note Wilno was always a multi-national city, full of jews, lithuanians, Russians, Belarusians, Polish people and so on. Even during the Soviet period the city was heavy influenced by Polish language speakers, I remember hearing that milicia's officers used to speak Polish with the local Poles. If you'd held a referedum most likely the region would remain part of lithuania, just sayin', so you can scream all you want Wilno je Polska, it won't change the fact.

[Minde]

Just by reading the thread's title I knew it was ... trolling time

On the serious note Wilno was always a multi-national city, full of jews, lithuanians, Russians, Belarusians, Polish people and so on. Even during the Soviet period the city was heavy influenced by Polish language speakers, I remember hearing that milicia's officers used to speak Polish with the local Poles. If you'd held a referedum most likely the region would remain part of lithuania, just sayin', so you can scream all you want Wilno je Polska, it won't change the fact.

yes my kat fiend you and me wipe those poles out

[Mans not hot]

[Meow]

yes my kat fiend you and me wipe those poles out

Keep the Russian cats out of this

[Mans not hot]

Well, I can wipe you out of the thread if you're keeping trolling.

[Meow]

As my lithuanian friend says: Vilnius is ours and we are Russians'

[Mans not hot]

lol

[Peterski]

Poland took Wilno (Vilnius) from Russia after WW1 - true. But Lithuania took Władysławów (Vladislavovas), Kalwaria (Kalvarija), Wyłkowyszki (Vilkaviškis), Mariampol (Marijampolė) and Kowno (Kaunas) from Poland.

Between 1807 - 1918 all those cities and counties belonged to Poland (the Duchy of Warsaw & Congress Kingdom of Poland). Kowno was a city split in half by border river Neman - 1/2 belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw & Congress Poland and 1/2 to the Russian Empire.

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The ethnic map posted by Tiger above is manipulated (it underestimates the % of Poles in eastern regions).

But even if Poles were a minority in some part of Vilna Governorate, then they were minority to Belarusians - not to Lithuanians.

Here is a map showing the extent of Slavs (both Poles and Belarusians count here, while Lithuanians don't since they are Balts):



Author of the map forgot about Burgenland Croats, Carinthian-Styrian Slovenes and Slovincians though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenland_Croats

http://www.minorityrights.org/1884/a...nd-styria.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthian_Slovenes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovincian_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs

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Counties where Poles were more than 1/3 inhabitants before WW1 (often those counties were heavily ethnically mixed, for example: Poles 38%, Jews 16%, Belarusians 31%, Lithuanians 10%, Others 5%, etc. - meaning that Poles were not absolute, but still relative majority):