Ašašninkai is a village in

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, in

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, in southeastern

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. According to the 2021 census, the village has a population of 27 people. In the years 1921-1945 the village was within the borders of

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. Ašašninkai is the southernmost inhabited place is Lithuania. Ašašninkai village is located c. from

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, from Marcinkonys, from Kabeliai (the nearest settlement) and from the

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ian border.

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Etymology

The name ''Ašašninkai'' (in Dzūkian ''Ašašnykai'') comes from < , which mean 'a hunter beater, a forest ranger, a forest keeper, a tracker'. Before 1990 the village was officially called Kabeliai II.

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Villages in Varėna District Municipality {{Varėna-geo-stub