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At the time of the census in 2001, there were 103 cities, 244 towns, and some 21,000 villages in Lithuania. Since then three cities (Juodupė, Kulautuva, and Tyruliai) and two villages (Salakas and Jūrė) became towns. Therefore, during the Lithuanian census of 2011, there were 249 towns in Lithuania. According to Lithuanian law, a town is a ...
City survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated. Hlybokaye: גלובאָק Glubok Compare Lithuanian name Glubokas. Town survived. Iwye: אײװיע Eyvye City survived. Kamyenyets: קאַמעניץ Kamenitz Town survived, but nearly all Jews were exterminated. Lakhwa: לאַכװע Lakhve ~2,300 (1940) Town survived, but most Jews were ...
Vilnius is the largest city of Lithuania with urban population over 700,000 inhabitants. In Lithuania, there are 103 cities (in Lithuanian: singular – miestas, plural – miestai). The term city is defined by the Parliament of Lithuania as a compact urban area with more than 3,000 people, of whom at least two-thirds work in the industry or ...
City/Town District (Kreis) Pop. in 1939 Current Name Current Administrative Unit Allenburg: Landkreis Wehlau: 2 694: Druzhba: Kaliningrad Oblast Allenstein: Landkreis Allenstein: 50 396: Olsztyn: Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Angerburg: Landkreis Angerburg: 10 922: Węgorzewo : Warmia-Masuria Arys: Landkreis Johannisburg: 3 553: Orzysz: Warmia ...
Map of Poland. This is a list of cities and towns in Poland, consisting of four sections: the full list of all 107 cities in Poland by size, followed by a description of the principal metropolitan areas of the country, the table of the most populated cities and towns in Poland, and finally, the full alphabetical list of all 107 Polish cities and 861 towns combined.
The city of Vilnius, the capital and largest city of Lithuania, has an extensive history starting from the Stone Age. The city has changed hands many times between Imperial and Soviet Russia, Napoleonic France, Imperial and Nazi Germany, Interwar Poland, and Lithuania. Initially a Baltic settlement, Vilnius became a significant city under the ...
t. e. The history of Lithuania dates back to settlements founded about 10,000 years ago, [ 1 ][ 2 ] but the first written record of the name for the country dates back to 1009 AD. [ 3 ] Lithuanians, one of the Baltic peoples, later conquered neighboring lands and established the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 13th century (and also a short ...
Klaipėda (/ ˈkleɪpɛdə / CLAY-ped-ə; Lithuanian: [ˈkɫɐɪpʲeːdɐ] ⓘ; German: Memel) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. [ 5 ] It is the third largest city in Lithuania, the fifth largest city in the Baltic States and the capital of Klaipėda County, as well as the only major seaport in the country.