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Šiau⋅liai

  [shou-lyahy]
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a city in N Lithuania, N of Kaunas. 145,000.
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Šiau·liai   (shyou'lyī')   
A city of northern Lithuania northwest of Vilnius. Under the control of the Polish crown from 1589 until 1772, it passed to Russia in 1795 and to independent Lithuania in 1920. Population: 128,000.
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Siauliai

city, north-central Lithuania. The city, dating from at least the 13th century, may be identical with the "Saule" where a major military confrontation took place in 1236 between the Lithuanians and the Brothers of the Sword, an order of Christian knights bent on imposing Christianity on the Baltic states. The order was decisively defeated, and the survivors were forced to merge with the Teutonic Knights.

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