Gastilonys is a former village in the

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, located 1 kilometer south of Grabučiškės, on the right bank of the

Kaunas Reservoir Kaunas Reservoir ( lt, Kauno marios, Kaunas Lagoon, Kaunas Sea) is the largest Lithuanian artificial lake, created in 1959 by damming the Nemunas River near Kaunas and Rumšiškės. It occupies 63.5 square kilometers, which is about 0.1% of the to ...

. The Gastilonys Botanical-Zoological Reserve has been established in the village, where grows.

History

The village used to be on the right bank of the

Neman The Neman, Nioman, Nemunas or MemelTo bankside nations of the present: Lithuanian: be, Нёман, , ; russian: Неман, ''Neman''; past: ger, Memel (where touching Prussia only, otherwise Nieman); lv, Nemuna; et, Neemen; pl, Niemen; ...

, east of . In around 1960, when the construction of the

Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant The Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant, located on the Nemunas River about southeast of central Kaunas, Lithuania, was completed in 1960. Its dam created the Kaunas Reservoir. Owned by Lietuvos Energija, it operates in conjunction with the Kruon ...

started, the village was evicted, because after the construction of the power plant, the whole territory of Kaunas appeared at the bottom of the

Origin of the name

The name of the village comes from the surname ''Gastila''.Aleksandras Vanagas. Išnykę vietovardžiai. „Kauno marios“. Paruošė Lietuvos TSR paminklų apsaugos ir kraštotyros draugijos Kauno skyrius. – Vilnius, „Mokslas“, 1981. // psl. 83–86

References

{{reflist Villages in Kaunas County Former populated places in Lithuania