Mielagėnai is a town in
Ignalina district municipality
Ignalina District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania.
Structure
District structure:
* 2 cities – Dūkštas and Ignalina;
* 3 towns – Mielagėnai, Rimšė and Tverečius;
* 726 villages.
* Ignalina District Municipalit ...
, in
Utena County
Utena County ( lt, Utenos Apskritis) is one of ten counties in Lithuania. It is the country's most sparsely populated county. The capital and the largest city in the county is Utena, which is from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. On 1 July 201 ...
, southern
Lithuania
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. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 236 people.
There is
John the Baptist
John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ...
church, build at 1790.
Famous citizens
*
Augustinas Janutėnas, the
book smuggler
Lithuanian book smugglers or Lithuanian book carriers ( lt, knygnešys, plural: lt, knygnešiaĩ, label=none) transported Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuanian-speaking areas of the Russian Empire, defying a ba ...
.
References
Towns in Utena County
Towns in Lithuania
Sventsyansky Uyezd
Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)
Ignalina District Municipality
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