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Kelmė
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Kelmė (; ; ) is a city in northwestern Lithuania, a historical region of Samogitia. It has a population of 8,206 and is the administrative center of the Kelmė District Municipality.
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Kelmė is a city in Lithuania that serves as the capital of Kelmė District Municipality. Located within Šiauliai County, the city has a population of 10,899 and covers an area of 7.85 square kilometers. It sits at an elevation of 128 meters above sea level and operates in the Eastern European Time zone. The city’s postal code is 86001.
Historically, Kelmė was part of the Russian Empire. It is twinned with Hódmezővásárhely, Biłgoraj, Ogre, and Lienen. The city is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kelmė
- Region
- Šiaulių apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 8,245
- Timezone
- Europe/Vilnius
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Key facts
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- Lithuania
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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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- Šiauliai County
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- Municipality
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- Kelmė district municipality
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- Eldership
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- Kelmė eldership
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Encyclopedic overview
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Kelmė (; ; ) is a city in northwestern Lithuania, a historical region of Samogitia. It has a population of 8,206 and is the administrative center of the Kelmė District Municipality.
==Name== Kelmė's name is likely derived from the Lithuanian word kelmynės, literally: the stubby place, because of the forests that were there at the time of its founding. The Yiddish name is Kelm, as in Kelm Talmud Torah.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kelmė” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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