Šiluva
Sign in to savethumb|left|Church of Šiluva thumb|left|Šiluva Chapel designed by Antoni Wiwulski Šiluva is a small town of less than 700 inhabitants in Lithuania. It is located in the region of Samogitia. It is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage in Lithuania.
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Place details
- Locality
- Šiluva
- Region
- Kauno apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 0
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- Šiluva
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- Town
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- Lithuania
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- Location of Šiluva
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- Country
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type1
- Ethnographic region
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name1
- Samogitia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Šiluva Eldership
- Population
- +530
- Elevation
- +142
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Šiluva Eldership
- Image
- Siluva.JPG
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thumb|left|Church of Šiluva thumb|left|Šiluva Chapel designed by Antoni Wiwulski Šiluva is a small town of less than 700 inhabitants in Lithuania. It is located in the region of Samogitia. It is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage in Lithuania.
==History== Šiluva was first mentioned in 1457 in relation to the building of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Bartholomew by the Lithuanian noble Petras Gedgaudas. Later the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary attracted huge numbers of the faithful to Šiluva, some from as far away of what later became Protestant Prussia.