Ašašninkai is a village in
Varėna district municipality
Varėna (; pl, Orany; yi, אוראַן ''Oran'') is a city in Dzūkija, Lithuania.
History
The town was founded in 1862 near the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway, south of Sena Varėna (Old Varėna). At that time it was a small settleme ...
, in
Alytus County
Alytus County ( lt, Alytaus apskritis) is one of ten counties of Lithuania, counties in Lithuania. It is the southernmost county, and its Capital (political), capital is the city of Alytus. Its territory lies within the Regions of Lithuania, et ...
, in southeastern
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 ...
. According to the 2021 census, the village has a population of 27 people.
In the years 1921-1945 the village was within the borders of
Poland. Ašašninkai is the southernmost inhabited place is Lithuania.
Ašašninkai village is located c. from
Druskininkai, from
Marcinkonys
Marcinkonys (Polish: ''Marcinkańce'') is a village in Varėna district, Lithuania, located 21 km. south-west of Varėna. It is the administrative center of the Marcinkonys Eldership and it houses the administrations of the Dzūkija National Par ...
, from
Kabeliai (the nearest settlement) and from the
Belarusian border.
Demographics
Etymology
The name ''Ašašninkai'' (in
Dzūkian ''Ašašnykai'') comes from lt, ašašnykas < be,
асочнік, russian: осочник which mean 'a hunter beater, a forest ranger, a forest keeper, a tracker'. Before 1990 the village was officially called Kabeliai II.
References
Villages in Varėna District Municipality
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