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That's a very poor addition, which doesn't mean anything says Sabbatino

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This letter is best known because Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, was mentioned in written sources for the first time. - there is no word Vilnius in the text, only Vilna, Wilno, Vilne [E. Bojtár, Foreword To The Past, A Cultural History of the Baltic People, p. 265, Central European University Press, 1999] .
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