Vilna Governorate (ltu)

Vilna Governorate

Vilna Governorate ranks 3,534th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind El Dorado, Arkansas, British Columbia, and Suva. Memorable people born in Vilna Governorate include Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Maciej Sulkiewicz, and Francišak Bahuševič. Memorable people who died in Vilna Governorate include Alaiza Pashkevich. Vilna Governorate has been the birth place of many writers, and linguists and the death place of many writers. Vilna Governorate is located in Lithuania.

The Vilna Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire. In 1897, the governorate covered an area of 41,907.9 square kilometres (16,180.7 sq mi) and had a population of 1,591,207 inhabitants. The governorate was defined by the Minsk Governorate to the south, the Grodno Governorate to the southwest, the Suwałki Governorate to the west, the Kovno and Courland Governorates to the north, and the Vitebsk Governorate to the east. The capital was located in Vilna (Vilnius). The city also served as the capital of Vilna Governorate-General, which existed until 1912. The area roughly corresponded to the Vilnius Region, which was later occupied by Germany, Bolsheviks, and Poland. Read more on Wikipedia