Kavarskas
Sign in to saveKavarskas (), with a population of only 700, is the fourth smallest city in Lithuania. The Šventoji River flows through the town. In 1956 near Kavarskas a water lifting station was built and part of the Šventoji River's water was channeled to the Nevėžis River. Nowadays there is a water-power plant operating there.
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- Locality
- Kavarskas
- Region
- Utenos apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 755
- Timezone
- Europe/Vilnius
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- Kavarskas
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- Lithuania
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- Location of Kavarskas
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- Country
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- Ethnographic region
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- Aukštaitija
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- County
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- 17px Utena County
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- Municipality
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- Anykščiai district municipality
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- Eldership
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- Kavarskas eldership
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- Capital of
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- Kavarskas eldership
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.established_date
- 1538
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Kavarskas
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Anykščiai District Municipality
- Population
- 503
- Elevation
- 82
- Image
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- Commons category
- Kavarskas
- native label
- Kavarskas
- inception
- 1538-00-00
- time of earliest written record
- 1538-00-00
- postal code
- LT-29021
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- P8168
- Auguste Mercier
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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- History
- References
Kavarskas (), with a population of only 700, is the fourth smallest city in Lithuania. The Šventoji River flows through the town. In 1956 near Kavarskas a water lifting station was built and part of the Šventoji River's water was channeled to the Nevėžis River. Nowadays there is a water-power plant operating there.
== Etymology == The name of Kavarskas comes from the surname of Stanisław Kowarski, who owned the Manor of Mažyų Pienionių (manorial place name). Although there are not many place names in Lithuania that are based on the singular of the surname, there are some (Sudargas, Musteika, perhaps Birštonas). In other languages, the town is known as: .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kavarskas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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