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, southeastern

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. According to the 2001 census, the village has a population of 388 people. At the 2011 census, the population was 291. �
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Varėna Varėna () is a city in Dzūkija, southern Lithuania. It is the capital of the district of Varėna. Currently, there are 7,794 residents. The Varėna district is the largest and most forested municipality of Lithuania as more than 50% of the di ...

, from

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, from Mantotai (the nearest settlement), from the

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ian border.

Etymology

The name ''Dubičiai'' probably comes from the name of currently drained Dubas Lake which correspondingly is from the Lithuanian root ''dub-'' meaning 'to cave, to sink' (as ''duobė'' 'a pit', ''duburys'' 'a waterhole'). There is also Slavic

personal name A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek ''prósōpon'' – person, and ''onoma'' –name) is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group, they all relate to that on ...

s ''Дубичь, Дубич, Дубіч'' and Lithuanian one ''Dubiẽtis'' but they may descend from the village name.

References

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