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    2005-03-15. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Švenčionys. Official Website Švenčionys, Lithuania at JewishGen...
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  • Švenčionys, Svintsyan or Święciany Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Švenčionys (pre-war Second Polish Republic, post-war Lithuanian SSR). It...
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    population claiming Polish ethnicity. Švenčionys District Municipality is divided into 11 elderships: Švenčionys district municipality is twinned with...
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    Podbrodz) is a city in Lithuania, in Švenčionys district municipality, on Žeimena river, 38 km south-west of Švenčionys. Pabradė is a busy place as the Vilnius–Daugavpils...
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  • or the Švenčionys massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia w Święcianach) was a series of mass murders committed against Poles in Święciany (now Švenčionys, Lithuania)...
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    Eišiškės: 2,844 Pabradė: 2,681 Grigiškės: 2,518 Visaginas: 2,084 Trakai: 938 Švenčionys: 860 The adoption of Polish cultural features by the nobles, townspeople...
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    Maišiagala, Mickūnai and Šumskas) in the district. It borders Belarus and the Švenčionys, Moletai, Širvintos, Elektrėnai, Trakai and Šalčininkai districts. The...
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    Eldership and Čekiškė Eldership Švenčionys District Municipality Adutiškis Eldership, Svirkos Eldership, Švenčionys Eldership, Švenčionėliai Eldership...
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    centre was located in Sventsyany (modern-day Švenčionys). The Sventsyany uezd included the most part of Švenčionys District and Pastavy District of Belarus...
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    Molėtai Širvintos Kazlų Rūda Šakiai Skuodas Ignalina Šilalė Pakruojis Švenčionys Lazdijai Kalvarija Neringa Rietavas Birštonas Pagėgiai Baltic Sea Curonian...
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    Svirkos is a village in Švenčionys district municipality, in Vilnius County, in northeastern Lithuania. According to the 2021 census, the village has a...
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    municipality Šalčininkai district municipality Širvintos district municipality Švenčionys district municipality Trakai district municipality Ukmergė district municipality...
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  • Širvintos Eldership In Švenčionys District Municipality: Trakai, Strūnaitis, in Strūnaitis Eldership Trakai, Švenčionys, in Švenčionys Eldership In Ukmergė...
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    official, namely, Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Yiddish. Some parts, e.g., Švenčionys, Šalčininkai, Dieveniškės, Adutiškis, Druskininkai, were annexed in 1939...
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    Mark Natanson (category People from Švenčionys)
    He was the uncle of Alexander Berkman. Natanson was born in 1850 in Švenčionys, Lithuania to a Lithuanian Jewish family but became a Russian revolutionary...
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    Panevėžys Pasvalys Plungė Prienai Radviliškis Raseiniai Rokiškis Skuodas Švenčionys Šakiai Šalčininkai Šiauliai Šilalė Šilutė Širvintos Tauragė Telšiai Trakai...
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    Józef Piłsudski (category People from Švenčionys District Municipality)
    Józef Klemens Piłsudski[a] (Polish: [ˈjuzɛf ˈklɛmɛns piwˈsutskʲi] ; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Chief of State...
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  • childhood. His mother, Mina Owczyńska (1879—1941), was a Jewish actress from Švenčionys (Svintsyán) and his father was a businessman named Arieh-Leib Kacew (1883—1942)...
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  • including a colonel, were buried in Švenčionys. The dead partisans were loaded onto a train and brought to Švenčionys where they were publicly displayed...
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    piliakalnis Baluoša (Švenčionys) Bogutiškės piliakalnis Bogutiškė Brižių I piliakalnis Noselėnų II piliakalnis Brižiai (Švenčionys) Brižių II piliakalnis...
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    Švenčionėliai (category Švenčionys District Municipality)
    Švenčionėliai (pronunciation) is a city in Švenčionys district municipality, Lithuania 10 km west of Švenčionys. The river Žeimena flows through Švenčionėliai...
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    Lithuanian SSR. The Byelorussian SSR transferred cities and surroundings of Švenčionys, Dieveniškės, Druskininkai to the Lithuanian SSR that were mostly inhabited...
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    Ghettos Kovno Ghetto Marcinkonys Ghetto Šiauliai Ghetto Švenčionys Ghetto Telšiai Ghetto Vilna Ghetto Concentration camps Geruliai HKP 562 forced labor...
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  • 0449 Kaunas 037 Šilutė 0441 Kelmė 0427 Širvintos 0382 Kėdainiai 0347 Švenčionys 0387 Klaipėda 046 Tauragė 0446 Kretinga 0445 Telšiai 0444 Kupiškis 0459...
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    Soviet Union and 2,650 km2 (1,020 sq mi) (including Druskininkai and Švenčionys) on August 3, 1940, from the Byelorussian SSR. The Eastern Vilnius Region...
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  • Klaipėda City Municipality (19.63%) Zarasai District Municipality (18.71%) Švenčionys District Municipality (13.28%) Vilnius City Municipality (11.94%) Ignalina...
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    companies Vilnius (2×), Nemenčinė, Trakai, Ukmergė, Molėtai, Ignalina, Švenčionys, and Šalčininkai Non-kinetic Operations Company, in Vilnius In reforming...
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    Astrakhan church was built in Kamianets-Podilskyi, a reduced-scale variant in Svencionys and an increased-scale variant in Nizhny Novgorod (Savelyev, 2005, pp...
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    concentrated in the Vilnius Ghetto, Kaunas Ghetto, Šiauliai Ghetto, and Švenčionys Ghetto and forced to work for the benefit of German military industry...
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    Kazincbarcika, Hungary Nizhyn, Ukraine Police nad Metují, Czech Republic Švenčionys, Lithuania Trutnov, Czech Republic Tendring, United Kingdom "Local Data...
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