Užpaliai (traditional russian: Ушполь, pl, Uszpolski) is a town 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 2 ...
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Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 758 people.
History
The Jewish population was important in the town, for example, in 1897, 691 inhabitants were Jewish out of a total population of 740 people.
In July 1941, the Jewish population was massacred in mass executions perpetrated by an
Einsatzgruppen of Lithuanian nationalists on different sites.
Gallery
File:N.Sansonas d'Abbevillis, Lietuvos dalies žemėlapis 1665 m., Vilkmergės pavietas.png, Užpaliai (''Wyspol'') marked in Nicolas Sanson
Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. He has been called the "father of French cartography."
Life and work
He was born of an old Picard family of Sco ...
map (1665)
File:Užpalių seniūnija.JPG, Parish
File:Užpalių centras.JPG, Town centre
File:Užpaliai 2.JPG
File:Užpaliai1.JPG, Arriving from Utena
Utena () is a city in north-east Lithuania. It is the administrative center of Utena district and Utena County. Utena is one of the oldest settlements of Lithuania. The name of the city is most probably derived from a hydronym. The name of the s ...
File:Užpalių cerkvė.JPG, Orthodox church
File:Knygnešio namas Užpaliai.JPG, Lithuanian book smuggler Juozas Baranauskas house
References
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Utena County
Vilkomirsky Uyezd
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
Utena District Municipality
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