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Nociūnai
Nociūnai (formerly , ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality of Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had 304 residents. It is located from Kėdainiai, by the Barupė river, next to the crossroad of the Jonava-Šeduva (KK144) road and A8 highway. The village contains a library, a community center, a former school, a cemetery, and an ancient burial site. History The Nociūnai Manor was a property of the Šiukštos family in the 19th century. There was a wooden familial tomb-chapel, built in 1805. During the Soviet era, Nociūnai was a center of the "Spike" ''kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz. These were the two components of the socialized farm sector that began to eme ...''. Demography Images Nociūnų kapinės.JPG, Nociūnai cemetery Via Baltica ties Nociūnais.JPG, A8 highway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelėdnagiai Eldership
Pelėdnagiai Eldership () is a Lithuanian Elderships of Lithuania, eldership, located in the south eastern part of Kėdainiai District Municipality. Eldership was created from the Pelėdnagiai ''selsovet'' in 1993. Geography The territory of Pelėdnagiai Eldership is located mostly in the Nevėžis Plain and the Nevėžis river valley. Relief is mostly flat, cultivated as agriculture lands. Forests cover about 40 % of the eldership. * Rivers: Nevėžis, Barupė, Urka, Mėkla, Lankesa, Ašarėna * Lakes and ponds: Labūnava Reservoir. * Forests: Labūnava Forest. * Protected areas: Barupė Hydrographical Sanctuary, Lankesa Botanical Sanctuary, Pelėdnagiai Botanical Sanctuary, Labūnava Forest Biosphere Polygon. Places of interest *Catholic church of the Divine in Labūnava *Juciūnai cemetery chapel *Aukupėnai cemetery tomb-chapel *Labūnava manor tower *Gelnai wayside chapel *Ancient burial site in Nociūnai and former cemetery site in Pašiliai *Soviet mosaic the "Land Improve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barupė
The Barupė is a river in Jonava District Municipality and Kėdainiai District Municipality of Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. It flows for and has a basin area of . It is a left tributary of the Nevėžis. The Barupė starts at Žinėnai village, in Jonava District Municipality. It flows northwards, before turning to the west in Pamelnytėlė. It meets the Nevėžis near Labūnava village. The upper course in channalised. The lower course has a deep valley. The course has a width of and depth of . The flow rate is . Labūnava Reservoir dams the Barupė river; smaller ponds are also located in the Barupė valley in Kuigaliai and Labūnava. Sangailiškiai, Kuigaliai, Pėdžiai, Nociūnai, Serbinai, Labūnava villages are located on the shores of the Barupė. A part of river's lower course is protected as the Barupė Landscape Sanctuary. The hydronym is of uncertain origin. The component ''upė'' means 'river' while the root ''bar-'' could be of archaic origin, rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countries Of The World
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kėdainiai
Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. Kėdainiai were first mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, its population was 23,051. The Kėdainiai Old Town dates to the 17th century and many of its historical buildings were preserved. The town is the administrative centre of the Kėdainiai District Municipality. The geographical centre of the Lithuania is in the nearby village of Ruoščiai in the Elderships of Lithuania, eldership of Dotnuva. In a ring of five miles, the St Jurgis church is surrounded by smaller villages – Lančiūnava, , Labūnava, Josvainiai, Dotnuva, Kalnaberžė. Names The city has been known by other names: ''Kiejdany'' in Polish language, Polish, ''Keidan'' (קיידאן) in Yiddish (language), Yiddish, and ''Kedahnen'' in German (language), German. Kėdainiai other alternate forms includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarybų Lietuvos Enciklopedija
''Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija'' or TLE (translation: ''Encyclopedia of Soviet Lithuania'') was an encyclopedia of the Lithuanian SSR, covering topics such as archaeology, history, nature, science, cultural heritage, cities, districts, biographies of famous people and politics, but only as they relate to Lithuania. It was published in four volumes between 1985 and 1988 in Vilnius Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population w .... It was derived from the 12-volume '' Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija'' but TLE did not cover general areas such as technology, biology, pharmacology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics and others. Volumes * Volume 1: A–Grūdas, 1985 * Volume 2: Grūdas–Marvelis, 1986 * Volume 3: Masaitis–Simno, 1987 * Volume 4: Simno–Žvorūnė, 1988 Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolkhoz
A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz. These were the two components of the socialized farm sector that began to emerge in Agriculture in the Soviet Union, Soviet agriculture after the October Revolution of 1917, as an antithesis both to the feudalism, feudal structure of impoverished serfdom and aristocracy, aristocratic landlords and to individual or family farming. Initially, a collective farm resembled an updated version of the traditional Russian obshchina "commune", the generic "farming association" (''zemledel’cheskaya artel’''), the Association for Joint Cultivation of Land (TOZ), and finally the kolkhoz. This gradual shift to collective farming in the first 11 years after the October Revolution was turned into a "violent stampede" during the collectivization in the Soviet Union, forced collectivization campaign that began in 1928. Name T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A8 Highway (Lithuania)
The A8 highway is a highway in Lithuania (Magistraliniai keliai). It runs from Panevėžys, through Kėdainiai bypass to the interchange with A1 highway (Lithuania), A1 highway near Sitkūnai. From there, the road continues to Kaunas, Vilnius, Klaipėda or Warsaw. The length of the road is 87.86 km. The speed limit along most of the road length is 90 km/h. It is one of the most important transit roads in the Baltic States (part of Via Baltica corridor). This route is part of International E-road network (part of European route E67). There are distant plans to reconstruct most of the road as a motorway. Currently, 2+1 road is planned. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šeduva
Šeduva () is a town in the Radviliškis district municipality, Lithuania. It is located east of Radviliškis. Šeduva was an agricultural town dealing in cereals, flax and linseed, pigs and geese and horses, at the site of a royal estate and beside a road from Kaunas to Riga. The population from the fifteenth century was Catholic and Jewish. Until then, Lithuania had been the last pagan kingdom in Europe and allowed freedom of worship and toleration of Jews and other religions. The first Catholic shrine of Šeduva, the Church of the Invention of the Holy Cross, was built and the parish founded between 1512 and 1529. The present brick church Cross was built in Šeduva in 1643 with a donation from bishop Jurgis Tiškevičius of Vilnius. During the 18th century the bell tower was added to the structure, with further renovations and extensions in 1905. Baroque and renaissance architectural styles characterise both the exterior and interior of the church. It has a cruciform pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonava
Jonava () is the ninth largest city in Lithuania with a population of . It is located in Kaunas County in central Lithuania, north east of Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania. It is served by Kaunas International Airport. ''Achema'', the largest fertilizer factory in the Baltic states, is located nearby the city. The city is sometimes called "the capital of Saint Jonas's Festival, midsummer holiday" (). Thousands of locals and visitors annually celebrate the midsummer festival in Jonava. Each year during the midsummer holiday Jonava is declared a one-day 'Republic of Johns' (). The Jonava's Republic of Johns has thousands of citizens not only from Lithuania, but also from many foreign countries (e.g. Poland, Croatia, Austria, Mexico, Italy, United States, etc.). Only those who provide documents proving that their names are John (Lithuanian language, Lithuanian: Jonas (name), Jonas) or Janina (given name), Janina are eligible to apply for the citizenship of the Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of the UTC+03:00 time zone, which is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European and Middle Eastern countries, which makes it the same as Arabia Standard Time, East Africa Time, and Moscow Time. During the winter periods, Eastern European Time ( UTC+02:00) is used. Since 1996, European Summer Time has been applied from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. Previously, the rules were not uniform across the European Union. Usage The following countries and territories use Eastern European Summer Time during the summer: * Belarus, Moscow Summer Time in years 1981–89, regular EEST from 1991-2011 * Bulgaria, regular EEST since 1979 * Cyprus, regular EEST since 1979 ( Northern Cyprus stopped using EEST in September 2016, but returned to EEST in March 2018) * Egypt, in the years 1988–2010, 2014–2015 and since 2023 (see also Egypt Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counties Of Lithuania
The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties ( Lithuanian: singular ''apskritis'', plural ''apskritys''), all named after their capitals. The counties are divided into 60 municipalities (Lithuanian: singular ''savivaldybė'', plural ''savivaldybės''): 9 city municipalities, 43 district municipalities and 8 municipalities. Each municipality is then divided into elderates (Lithuanian: singular ''seniūnija'', plural ''seniūnijos''). This division was created in 1994 and slightly modified in 2000. Until 2010, the counties were administered by county governors (Lithuanian: singular – ''apskrities viršininkas'', plural – ''apskrities viršininkai'') appointed by the central government in Vilnius. Their primary duty was to ensure that the municipalities obey the laws and the Constitution of Lithuania. They did not have great powers vested in them, and so it was suggested that 10 counties are too much for Lithuania as the two smallest counties administer only four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
