Močėnai (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

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, P ...

. According to the 2011 census, the village was uninhabited. It is located 2.5 km from

Dotnuva Dotnuva (formerly , , ) is a small town with a 2003 population of 775 in central Lithuania, 10 km northwest of Kėdainiai, in the Kėdainiai district municipality. It is located on the Dotnuvėlė River. The geographical center of Lithuania, ...

, 3.5 km from

Sirutiškis Sirutiškis is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 370 people. It is located 1 km from the Kėdainiai city northern limit ( Babėnai), ...

, by the rivers of Vensutis and

Kruostas The Kruostas is a river of Kėdainiai district municipality, Kaunas County, central Lithuania. It flows for and has a basin area of . It originates near Alksnėnai village and goes through agriculture fields passing the villages of Žilvičiai ...

. A railway

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 ...

Šiauliai Šiauliai ( ; ) is a city in northern Lithuania, the List of cities in Lithuania, country's fourth largest city and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, sixth largest city in the Baltic States, with a population of 112 581 in 202 ...

goes by the village. At the beginning of the 20th century Močėnai 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 ...

'', where the Baginavičiai, Boreišiai, Beinaravičiai, Citavičiai, Kolnickiai, Liaudanskai, Sipavičiai, Staškevičiai, Jasudavičiai families had their property.

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