Didžiosios Kabiškės (literally: ''Great Kabiškės'') is a

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Vilnius district municipality Vilnius District Municipality ( lt, Vilniaus rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It surrounds the capital city of Vilnius on 3 sides, while the rest borders the Trakai District Municipality. At the 2011 Census, Poles a ...

, Lithuania. It is located about northeast of

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, capital of Lithuania. The nearest city is

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. A smaller village, known as Mažosios Kabiškės (literally: ''Little Kabiškės''), is located nearby. Didžiosios Kabiškės has a bi-lingual Lithuanian and Polish

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and a primary school (reorganized into one institution in May 2009), a postal office, and a library. The village was chosen as the center for Zhdanov's

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(collective farm). It was built between 1975 and 1980 by "Neris", one of the biggest farming complexes in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. The complex exchanged stock-raising technologies with

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. These developments spurred village's growth: it had 51 residents in 1959, 84 in 1970, 360 in 1979, 488 in 1985. In 1990 Lithuania declared independence and state's support for the kolkhoz discontinued. According to the census in 2011, it had 716 residents.

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Villages in Vilnius County Vilnius District Municipality {{Vilnius-geo-stub