Švenčionys
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Švenčionys (; ; known also by several alternative names) is a city in eastern Lithuania, and capital of the Švenčionys district municipality, located north of Vilnius. , it had a population of 4,065 of which about 17% were part of the Polish minority in Lithuania.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in LT, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Švenčionys is referenced by 259 other articles, and connects out to Yiddish, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and Švenčionys District Municipality.
Vinony files it under Cities in Lithuania, Cities in Vilnius County and Holocaust locations in Poland.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Švenčionys
- Region
- Vilniaus apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 5,538
- Timezone
- Europe/Vilnius
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Key facts
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- Švenčionys
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- City
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- View of the city with the Church of All Saints on the right
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- Lithuania
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- Location of Švenčionys
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- Švenčionių vėliava.svg
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- Country
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name2
- 20px Vilnius County
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- Municipality
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name3
- Švenčionys district municipality
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- Eldership
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- Švenčionys eldership
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- Capital of
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- Švenčionys district municipalityŠvenčionys eldership
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Švenčionys
- Population
- 4448
- Area
- 6.13
- Elevation
- 217
- Official website
- svencionys.lt
- Image
- Svencionys.jpg
- Dialing code
- 387
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- Commons category
- Švenčionys
- inception
- 1800-00-00
- time of earliest written record
- 1500-00-00
- postal code
- LT-18001
- native label
- Švenčionys
- P12749
- 1906
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Demographics
- Notable residents
- References
- External links
Švenčionys (; ; known also by several alternative names) is a city in eastern Lithuania, and capital of the Švenčionys district municipality, located north of Vilnius. , it had a population of 4,065 of which about 17% were part of the Polish minority in Lithuania.
== Etymology == There are two established hypotheses about the etymology of the Švenčionys name: one that it is the name of the nearby lake Šventas (literally: saint) with the addition of the Lithuanian suffix -onys; another is that it is derived from the personal name, Švenčionis. In other languages the name is rendered as , , , , and .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Švenčionys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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