Talk:Letters of Gediminas

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	Review comments: Renata (talk) 20:01, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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

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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