Šventežeris
Sign in to saveŠventežeris (literally: sacred lake) is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. As of 2011, it had a population of 295. It is situated some east of Lazdijai on the banks of Lake Šventežeris.
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- Locality
- Šventežeris
- Region
- Alytaus apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
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- Šventežeris
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- Town
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- Lithuania
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- Location in Lithuania
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- Country
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- County
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- 17px Alytus County
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- Municipality
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- Lazdijai district municipality
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- Eldership
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- Šventežeris eldership
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- Capital of
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- Šventežeris eldership
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- 2021
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_total
- 262
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- +2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Šventežeris
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Šventežeris Eldership
- Population
- 274
- Elevation
- 174
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Kosciol okolice Lozdzieje Litwa 01.jpg
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Šventežeris (literally: sacred lake) is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. As of 2011, it had a population of 295. It is situated some east of Lazdijai on the banks of Lake Šventežeris.
The town traces its history to Jerzy Radziwiłł, castellan of Trakai, who distributed land to his serfs. His heirs built a Calvinist church in 1598 and turned the town into a parish seat. Samuel Bogusław Chyliński (1631–1668), son of a Protestant priest and first translator of the Bible into the Lithuanian language whose translation was put to print, was born in the town. According to inventory of 1650, Šventežeris had a market square and 78 resident families.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Šventežeris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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