Kaltinėnai
Sign in to saveKaltinėnai (Samogitian: Kaltinienā, ) is a small town in the west of Lithuania, located near Žemaičių highway in Šilalė district municipality, Tauragė County. Kaltinėnai has around 728 inhabitants (2011). The town is in a hollow, and it is rumoured that a large lake existed at the end of the Ice age where it now sits. Kaltinėnai is surrounded by famous mounds such as Skuburkalnis, Švedkalnis, Kepaluškalnis and Medvėgalis. There are also two rivers nearby, the Akmena and the Ižnė.
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- Kaltinėnai
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- Town
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- Lithuania Šilalė District Municipality
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- Country
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- Ethnographic region
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- Samogitia
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- County
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- Tauragė
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- Municipality
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- Šilalė
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- Eldership
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- Kaltinėnų
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Šilalė District Municipality
- Population
- 835
- Elevation
- 148
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Panorama of Kaltinėnai, Lithuania.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Kaltinėnai Aleksandras Stulginskis Gymnasium
- The Church
- The Graveyard
- The Pilės mound (Kepaluškalnis)
- The Rehabilitation Centre
- References
Kaltinėnai (Samogitian: Kaltinienā, ) is a small town in the west of Lithuania, located near Žemaičių highway in Šilalė district municipality, Tauragė County. Kaltinėnai has around 728 inhabitants (2011). The town is in a hollow, and it is rumoured that a large lake existed at the end of the Ice age where it now sits. Kaltinėnai is surrounded by famous mounds such as Skuburkalnis, Švedkalnis, Kepaluškalnis and Medvėgalis. There are also two rivers nearby, the Akmena and the Ižnė.
Notable buildings include the church, an old wooden synagogue, a home for the elderly and the Rehabilitation Centre.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaltinėnai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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