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Medininkai
Medininkai (; be, Меднікі) is a village in Lithuania, located east of Vilnius city municipality and from the Lithuanian–Belarusian border. The village is situated on the Medininkai Highland, near the highest points of Lithuania – the Juozapinė Hill and Aukštojas Hill. The village is famous for the ruins of the Medininkai Castle. On 31 July 1991 the Lithuanian border post was attacked by Soviet OMON forces. Seven Lithuanian volunteer officers were shot, while Tomas Šernas barely survived. The village was briefly featured in the 2007 movie, ''Hannibal Rising''. Demographics According to the 2001 census, the village had 508 residents., but this number shrank to 493 in 2011 and to 413 as of 2021 census. Medininkai is the administrative center of an eldership. According to a 2010 eldership report, it had 1374 residents, of whom 92.3% were Poles, 3.2% Lithuanians, and 2.9% Russians. During the census of 2021, there were 953 inhabitants in Medininkai Eldership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medininkai Monument 1991
Medininkai (; be, Меднікі) is a village in Lithuania, located east of Vilnius city municipality and from the Lithuanian–Belarusian border. The village is situated on the Medininkai Highland, near the highest points of Lithuania – the Juozapinė Hill and Aukštojas Hill. The village is famous for the ruins of the Medininkai Castle. On 31 July 1991 the Lithuanian border post was attacked by Soviet OMON forces. Seven Lithuanian volunteer officers were shot, while Tomas Šernas barely survived. The village was briefly featured in the 2007 movie, ''Hannibal Rising''. Demographics According to the 2001 census, the village had 508 residents., but this number shrank to 493 in 2011 and to 413 as of 2021 census. Medininkai is the administrative center of an eldership. According to a 2010 eldership report, it had 1374 residents, of whom 92.3% were Poles, 3.2% Lithuanians, and 2.9% Russians. During the census of 2021, there were 953 inhabitants in Medininkai Eldership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medininkai Eldership
Medininkai (; be, Меднікі) is a village in Lithuania, located east of Vilnius city municipality and from the Lithuanian–Belarusian border. The village is situated on the Medininkai Highland, near the highest points of Lithuania – the Juozapinė Hill and Aukštojas Hill. The village is famous for the ruins of the Medininkai Castle. On 31 July 1991 the Lithuanian border post was attacked by Soviet OMON forces. Seven Lithuanian volunteer officers were shot, while Tomas Šernas barely survived. The village was briefly featured in the 2007 movie, ''Hannibal Rising''. Demographics According to the 2001 census, the village had 508 residents., but this number shrank to 493 in 2011 and to 413 as of 2021 census. Medininkai is the administrative center of an eldership. According to a 2010 eldership report, it had 1374 residents, of whom 92.3% were Poles, 3.2% Lithuanians, and 2.9% Russians. During the census of 2021, there were 953 inhabitants in Medininkai Eldership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medininkai Castle
Medininkai Castle ( lt, Medininkų pilis), a medieval castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ... in Vilnius district, Lithuania, was built in the first half of the 14th century. The defensive perimeter of the castle was 6.5 ha; it is the largest enclosure type castle in Lithuania. It was built on plain ground and was designed for Flanking maneuver, flank defence. The rectangular castle's yard covered approximately 1.8 hectares and was protected by walls 15 metres high and 2 metres thick. The castle had 4 gates and towers. The main tower (donjon), about 30 metres high, was used for residential quarters. Medininkai was first mentioned in 1392. The castle was badly damaged by a major fire in the late 15th century. Because of increased use of firearms, this type of cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet OMON Assaults On Lithuanian Border Posts
Several Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts occurred in 1991, after Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990. As a Soviet republic, the Lithuanian SSR did not have a state border with customs or checkpoints. The newly declared Republic of Lithuania began establishing the State Border Guard Service, before it was internationally recognized on 27 August 1991 by the states of the European Community. These posts also became a symbol of its struggle for independence. The Soviet government viewed the customs posts as illegal and sent the OMON (Special Purpose Police Unit) troops to harass the posts, especially those along the eastern border with Belarus. The unarmed custom officers and armed policemen were intimidated, beaten or killed, their cars were stolen or bombed, the posts were burned down or wrecked, and work of the checkpoints was otherwise disrupted. Two of the incidents resulted in the deaths of a total of eight Lithuanian citize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius District Municipality
Vilnius District Municipality ( lt, Vilniaus rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It surrounds the capital city of Vilnius on 3 sides, while the rest borders the Trakai District Municipality. At the 2011 Census, Poles in Lithuania, Poles amounted to 52.07% out of 95,348 inhabitants. 32.47% were Lithuanians, 8.01% Russians in Lithuania, Russians, 4.17% Belarusians in Lithuania, Belarusians, 0.65% Ukrainians in Lithuania, Ukrainians and 0.11% History of the Jews in Lithuania#Jews in modern Lithuania, Jews. In 2021, according to the census results, ethnographic composition was the following: Lithuanians – 38.52%, Poles in Lithuania, Lithuanian Poles – 46.75%, Russians in Lithuania, Lithuanian Russians – 7.35%, Belarusians in Lithuania, Lithuanian Belarusians – 3.26%, Ukrainians in Lithuania, Ukrainians – 0.63%, Other – 0.86% and 2.64% of inhabitants did not declare their ethnographic identity. The population grew to 108,948 in January 2022 becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius District Municipality
Vilnius District Municipality ( lt, Vilniaus rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It surrounds the capital city of Vilnius on 3 sides, while the rest borders the Trakai District Municipality. At the 2011 Census, Poles in Lithuania, Poles amounted to 52.07% out of 95,348 inhabitants. 32.47% were Lithuanians, 8.01% Russians in Lithuania, Russians, 4.17% Belarusians in Lithuania, Belarusians, 0.65% Ukrainians in Lithuania, Ukrainians and 0.11% History of the Jews in Lithuania#Jews in modern Lithuania, Jews. In 2021, according to the census results, ethnographic composition was the following: Lithuanians – 38.52%, Poles in Lithuania, Lithuanian Poles – 46.75%, Russians in Lithuania, Lithuanian Russians – 7.35%, Belarusians in Lithuania, Lithuanian Belarusians – 3.26%, Ukrainians in Lithuania, Ukrainians – 0.63%, Other – 0.86% and 2.64% of inhabitants did not declare their ethnographic identity. The population grew to 108,948 in January 2022 becau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aukštojas Hill
Aukštojas Hill is the highest point in all of Lithuania; it is located in the Medininkai Highlands, Migūnai forestry, approximately southeast of the capital city of Vilnius. Its elevation was measured in 2004 at 293.84 metres (964.08 feet) by specialists at the Institute of Geodesy at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, using GPS technology. Previously, Juozapinė Hill, at 292.7 metres (960.35 feet), had been officially regarded as the highest point in Lithuania. In 1985, suspicions were raised by Rimantas Krupickas, a Lithuanian geographer, that Juozapinė Hill was not actually Lithuania's highest elevation. Aukštojas Hill is located approximately 500 metres (1,640 feet) west of Juozapinė Hill. The designated use of the land where Aukštojas Hill is situated has been changed by the Vilnius county governor from agricultural to tourism and cultural. The summit of the hill features a grove of pine trees. The public institution 'Lietuvos viršūnės', headed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius City Municipality
Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urban area, which stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 718,507 (as of 2020), while according to the Vilnius territorial health insurance fund, there were 753,875 permanent inhabitants as of November 2022 in Vilnius city and Vilnius district municipalities combined. Vilnius is situated in southeastern Lithuania and is the second-largest city in the Baltic states, but according to the Bank of Latvia is expected to become the largest before 2025. It is the seat of Lithuania's national government and the Vilnius District Municipality. Vilnius is known for the architecture in its Old Town, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The city was noted for its multicultural population already in the time of the Polish–Lithuani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomas Šernas
Tomas Šernas (born 28 April 1962 in Vilnius) is a former Lithuanian customs officer and the only survivor of the Medininkai Massacre on 31 July 1991. He survived the point-blank shot to his head, but became disabled. After extensive medical treatment and rehabilitation, Šernas graduated from theological studies at Klaipėda University and joined the Reformed churches as a parson of the Vilnius parish. In 2010, he was elected for a three-year term as the General Superintendent of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Lithuania.Medininkų žudynes išgyvenęs T.Šernas tapo Lietuvos evangelikų reformatų bažnyčios vadovu |
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Russia to the southwest. It has a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.8 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, one of only a few living Baltic languages. For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, Monarchy of Lithuania, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Vilnius County
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusians In Lithuania
The Belarusian minority in Lithuania ( be, беларусы, ''biełarusy'', russian: белорусы, ''byelorusy'', Lithuanian: ''baltarusiai'' or ''gudai'') numbered 36,200 persons at the 2011 census, and at 1.2% of the total population of Lithuania, being the third most populous national minority. The Belarusian national minority in Lithuania has deep historical, cultural and political relations. Many famous Belarusians lived and created in Lithuania, mostly its capital Vilnius; it was in Vilnius that the first standardized Belarusian language grammar was printed. According to the 2011 census, only 18.4% of Belarusians speak Belarusian as their mother tongue, while Russian is native for 56.3%, Polish - 9.3%, Lithuanian - 5.2% of Belarusians. The most widespread Christian denominations among Belarusians in Lithuania are Roman Catholicism (49.6%) and Orthodoxy (32.3%). Francysk Skaryna gymnasium is the only Belarusian school in Vilnius. One Catholic church in Vilnius (St. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
