Meironiškiai
Meironiškiai | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 55°22′59″N 23°42′50″E / 55.38306°N 23.71389°E | |
Country | ![]() |
County | ![]() |
Municipality | Kėdainiai district municipality |
Eldership | Krakės Eldership |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 269 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Meironiškiai (formerly Russian: Мейронишки, Polish: Mejroniszki)[1] is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 269 people.[2] It is located 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) from Krakės town, by the Krakės-Josvainiai road, nearby the Smilgaitis and the Dangaučius rivers. There are a shop, a community house, a medicine station, a farm in Meironiškiai. Two big stones standing in the village are declared as a nature heritage object.
History
[edit]Meironiškiai developed into a bigger settlement during the Soviet era, as it was a kolkhoz center.[3]
Demography
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Source: 1902, 1923, 1959 & 1970, 1979, 1989, 2001, 2011 |
Images
[edit]- Community house
- The Meironiškiai Stones
References
[edit]- ^ "Mejroniszki". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 15 pt. 2. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1902. p. 315.
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 21, 2017.
- ^ "Meironiškiai". Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Vol. 3. Vilnius: Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija. 1987. p. 42.