Šilalė
Sign in to saveŠilalė (; Samogitian: Šėlalė, ) is a city in western Lithuania, Samogitia, Tauragė County. It is located north of Tauragė. The River Lokysta flows through the town and there is a pond in the centre of the town.
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Šilalė is a city and human settlement in Lithuania, serving as the capital of the Šilalė District Municipality. It is also the administrative center for the Šilalė Rural Eldership and the Traksėdis eldership. The settlement is located in Tauragė County and has an elevation of approximately 100 meters above sea level. Its earliest written record dates to 1522.
The city covers an area of 3.5 square kilometers. Population figures vary by source, with one listing 6,294 residents and another citing 4,640. Šilalė uses the postal code LT-75001 and operates within the Europe/Vilnius time zone. The settlement is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron.
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- Šilalė
- Region
- Tauragės apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 4,640
- Timezone
- Europe/Vilnius
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- Samogitia
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Šilalė (; Samogitian: Šėlalė, ) is a city in western Lithuania, Samogitia, Tauragė County. It is located north of Tauragė. The River Lokysta flows through the town and there is a pond in the centre of the town.
==History== The town is part of the Samogitian ethnographic region of Lithuania and was first mentioned in the sixteenth century. Its name derives from the generic word sila ("Pinewood") and Samogitian suffix -alė. It was located in the Duchy of Samogitia in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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