Jurgaičiai, Kėdainiai
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Jurgaičiai (formerly , ) is a village in
Kėdainiai district municipality 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 ...
, in
Kaunas County Kaunas County () is one of ten counties of Lithuania. It is in the centre of the country, and its Capital (political), capital is Kaunas. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished. Symbols The county's coat of arms can be blazoned ...
, in central
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. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 7 people. It is located from
Pajieslys Pajieslys (formerly , ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 254 people. It is located from Krakės, by the Jiesla rivulet, nearby ...
, in the Pajieslys Geomorphological Sanctuary. At the beginning of the 20th century Jurgaičiai was an ''
okolica In Poland and Lithuania okolica szlachecka or akalica, bajorkaimis (in Lithuanian) is a kind of estate village (''neighbourhood of the nobility''), or a complex of several villages of the same first part of the name and different second part. In the ...
'', a property of the Bagdonavičiai, Ylėnai, Kelčiauskai, Krasaučiai, Kutkevičiai, Mikulšiai, Milaševičiai, Paškevičiai and Aleknavičiai families. Archaeologist
Laima Vaitkunskienė Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 13 September 1936) is a Lithuanian medieval archaeologist, who specialises in the study of burial practices. She has led extensive and numerous excavations, and led on the study of amber in the region. Biography Bo ...
led excavations examining medieval cemeteries in the area.


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Villages in Kaunas County Kėdainiai District Municipality {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub