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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1920, July 12 | |
| The Treaty of Moscow brought to an end Russian-Lithuanian hostilities. The Bolsheviks, at war with Poland, hastened to recognize Lithuania and its possession of Vilna, which was taken over by the Lithuanians on the evacuation by the Bolsheviks (Aug. 24). | 1 |
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| Gen. Lucien Zeligowski and his Polish freebooters seized Vilna by surprise. The Lithuanians refused to give up their claims, and the League of Nations arranged for a plebiscite. Meanwhile the Lithuanian capital was fixed at Kaunas (Kovno). | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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