Suwałki Region is a historical region around the city of Suwałki in northeastern Poland near the border with Lithuania. It encompasses the powiats of Augustów, Suwałki, and Sejny, and roughly correspo
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SM Sejny Bazylika Nawiedzenia NMP 2020
The Polish–Lithuanian War was an undeclared war fought in the aftermath of World War I between newly independent Lithuania and Poland, with fighting mainly in the Vilnius and Suwałki regions, which wa
Suwałki Region
…and Lithuania after their re-emergence as independent states following World War I. This dispute along with the Vilnius question was the cause of the Polish–Lithuanian War and the Sejny Uprising. The area has since been part of Poland, with the exception of the German and Soviet occupation during World War II. The Suwałki…
Soldiers of the Lithuanian Army in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1920
Lithuanian soldiers of the Fifth Infantry Regiment in the forests of Vievis during the fighting with the Żeligowski's unit of the Polish Army
Commemoration of the Day of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1920 in Kaunas