Dieveniškės

Dieveniškės (literally: "Gods' place"; Polish: Dziewieniszki, Belarusian: Дзевянішкі Dzevyanishki) is a town in the Vilnius County of Lithuania, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from the Belarusian border in the so-called Dieveniškės appendix. It is surrounded by the Dieveniškės Regional Park.

Dieveniškės
Town
Coat of arms
Dieveniškės
Location of Dieveniškės
Coordinates: 54°11′40″N 25°37′30″E
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionDzūkija
County Vilnius County
MunicipalityŠalčininkai district municipality
EldershipDieveniškės eldership
First mentioned1385
Population
 (2011)
  Total720
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

History

Jewish cemetery of the town.

The estate of Dieveniškės was first mentioned in 1385 as a village of a Lithuanian noble Mykolas Mingaila, possibly the son of Gedgaudas, later ruled by the Goštautai family. Stanislovas Goštautas visited Dieveniškės with his wife Barbara Radziwill (Lithuanian: Barbora Radvilaitė), who used to pray in Dieveniškės church, built in the 16th century. According to the 1897 census, 75% of the village population were Jewish. The shtetl had 2 synagogues. The Jews were murdered during the Holocaust in Lithuania.[1]

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