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Kłajpedka is a
village 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 ...
in the administrative district of
Gmina Wiżajny __NOTOC__ Gmina Wiżajny, is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, on the Lithuanian border. Its seat is the village of Wiżajny, which lies approximately north of Suwałki ...
, within Suwałki County,
Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province ( pl, Województwo podlaskie, ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland. The name of the province and its territory correspond to the historic region of Podlachia. The capital and largest cit ...
, in north-eastern
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, close to the border with
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 ...
. From the 8th century B.C. until the 19th century, the Jotvingians, a Baltic tribe close to the Lithuanians, lived in this territory. From the 13th to the 14th century. until 1795 the village belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. According to the July 12 peace treaty between Lithuania and
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
, the village was assigned to the Republic of Lithuania. 1975-1998 belonged to the Suwalki Voivodeship.


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Villages in Suwałki County {{Suwałki-geo-stub