Babėnai (formerly pl, Bobiany, russian: Бабяны) is a northern part of the

Kėdainiai Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. First mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, its population is 23, ...

city, located in Kėdainiai district municipality, in

Kaunas County Kaunas County ( lt, Kauno apskritis) is one of ten counties of Lithuania The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties ( Lithuanian: singular ''apskritis'', plural ''apskritys''), all named after their capitals. The counties are ...

, in central

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. It is between the Nevėžis and

Dotnuvėlė The Dotnuvėlė is a river of Kėdainiai district municipality and Radviliškis district municipality, Kaunas County, central Lithuania. It flows for 60.9 kilometres and has a basin area of 192.7 km2. It is a right tributary of the Nevėžis r ...

rivers, by the road to

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and

Vilnius 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 urb ...

- Šiauliai railway. There are Babėnai park and pond, oil repository, old cemetery, Holocaust place and the old Daukša oak tree.

History

Babėnai (as ''Babyne'') is mentioned the first time in the

Hermann von Wartberge Hermann von Wartberge (died ca. 1380) was a chronicler of the Livonian Order. Born in Westphalia, Wartberge was a Catholic priest and author of the valuable Latin chronicle ''Chronicon Livoniale'' covering the history of the Livonian Crusade from ...

chronicle. At the 16th century Babėnai parcel was mentioned as an estate of Daukša family. At the 19th century Babėnai was an ''

okolica In Poland and Lithuania okolica szlachecka or akalica (in Lithuanian) is a kind of estate village (''neighbourhood of the nobility''), or a complex of several villages of the same first part of the name and different second part. In the past, it was ...

'', an estate of the Dapkevičiai and Petruševičiai. Around 1923, most of Babėnai was merged to Kėdainiai. It was a resort area during Interwar period. A small part of Babėnai still was a village (till 1954 as a center of ''selsovet'') but during Soviet era whole Babėnai became a part of Kėdainiai. From 1959, it was connected with a bus Line 1 to Kėdainiai.

Notable people

Babėnai is a home place of famous Lithuanian writer, priest, educator Mikalojus Daukša (born between 1527 and 1538).

References

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