Our capital history

I figured out one thing to myself, and that thing is is about the traffic of my blog. I think i should post more interesting stuff here than my blog optimisation and traffic increasing. So I decided to post some important stuff, maybe interesting to readers. So in this post I'll tell a little bit about my city and it's history. Maybe next I'll try to tell about the most beautiful views in this city. So read my blog and learn something new about world! :D
 
Gedimina's Tower

Vilnius is not only the largest town of Lithuania but it is the capital of the republic too. It is situated by the confluence of the rivers Neris and Vilnia in a strictly cut and hilly place. The Neris divides the town into two parts. It is thought that the name of Vilnius is derived from the Vilnia stream that flows into the Neris. The founder of Vilnius is considered to be the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas. The name of Vilnius was mentioned in the written chronicles for the first time in Gediminas' letter to the towns of Western Europe in 1323.

The Vilnius settlement started from the contemporary hill of the castle - a 48 metres high rectangle hill by the confluence of the rivers Neris and Vilnia. It is a very old mound of Lithuanian-Baltic tribes which had lived in the 1st thousand years. Before moving the capital from Trakai to Vilnius a wooden castle stood on that hill and quite a big settlement was situated at the foot of it. In the written chronicles of that time the castle was called the Upper castle. It is one of the architectural monuments of Gothic style in Lithuania.