Ožkabaliai is a village in

Vilkaviškis district municipality Vilkaviškis () is a city in southwestern Lithuania, the administrative center of the Vilkaviškis District Municipality. It is located northwest from Marijampolė, at the confluence of and rivers. The city got its name from the Vilkauja ...

, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, it had 44 residents. It is best known as the birthplace of

Jonas Basanavičius Jonas Basanavičius (, ; 23 November 1851 – 16 February 1927) was an activist and proponent of the Lithuanian National Revival. He participated in every major event leading to the independent Lithuanian state and is often given the informal hon ...

(1851–1927), one of the most prominent activists of the

Lithuanian National Revival The Lithuanian National Revival, alternatively the Lithuanian National Awakening or Lithuanian nationalism (), was a period of the history of Lithuania in the 19th century, when a major part of Lithuanian-inhabited areas belonged to the Russian ...

. Their reconstructed home is now a branch of the National Museum of Lithuania. The former pantry room holds the permanent exhibition of the works of his brother, Vincas Basanavičius.JONAS–BASANAVIČIUS–GEHÖFT–MUSEUM
(retrieved July 19,2015)

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