Girkalnis
Sign in to saveGirkalnis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 877.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Girkalnis is referenced by 121 other articles, and connects out to Raseiniai District Municipality, municipality of Lithuania and Lithuania.
The entry is geolocated on the map in LT, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Holocaust locations in Lithuania, Towns in Kaunas County and Towns in Lithuania.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Girkalnis
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- Town
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- Šėtupio street
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- Lithuania
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- Location in Lithuania
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- Country
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- Ethnographic region
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- Samogitia
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- County
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- 20px Kaunas County
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- Municipality
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name3
- Raseiniai district municipality
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- Eldership
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- Girkalnis eldership
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- Capital of
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- Girkalnis eldership
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Girkalnis Eldership
- Population
- 997
- Elevation
- 98
- Capital of
- Girkalnis Eldership
- Image
- Girkalnis. Gatvė.JPG
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- Girkalnis
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- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- P8168
- Khasia
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Encyclopedic overview
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Girkalnis is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania. As of 2011 it had a population of 877.
==History== From July to September 1941, about 1,000 Jews from Raseiniai, Betygala and Girkalnis were massacred in the city. Those mass executions were done by Germans and local policemen in the context of Shoah by bullets.
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