Vilijampole settlement was founded in 1652, when Jonušis Radvila invited foreign merchants and craftsmen to come to Kėdainiai and to create Vilijampolė. 1653 Vilijampolė had 24 houses. Vilijampolė is part of Kaunas city, 200m from Kaunas Old Town, located on the right bank of the Neris and Nemunas, near the confluence of these rivers. The main inhabitants of Vilijampolė were Jews, who at that time were forbidden to live in Kaunas. The first stone synagogue in Kaunas was built here, and one of the most prominent schools in the rabbis in Europe - the Viljampolė Yoshiva. The land belonged to the king's estate, and the Jews paid for it a fixed rent - činšą. After 1731 In the fire of Vilnius, Viljampolė's Jews began to buy plots of burned houses and build themselves in the city. 1753 King Augustus III forbade Vilijampole Jews to go to Kaunas, but they did not want to return to the already established ones. 1919 Vilijampolė is connected to Kaunas. Many of its plots are distributed to Lithuanian volunteers and landless people. 1929 Instead of the old, a new bridge built over a tidal bridge over Neris, improved communication with the city center. 1663 rajon named Slabada