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Dubingiai The church in Dubingiai
Location of Dubingiai
DubingiaiCoordinates: 55°03′40″N 25°27′00″E / 55.06111°N 25.45°E Country 
LithuaniaEthnographic region Aukštaitija County 
Utena CountyMunicipality Molėtai district municipality Eldership Dubingiai eldership Capital of Dubingiai eldership First mentioned 1334 Population (2001) – Total 239 Time zone EET (UTC+2) – Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3) 
The remains of Evangelicals reformators church
The bridge of Dubingiai
Asveja near DubingiaiDubingiai (Polish: Dubinki) is a town in Molėtai district in Lithuania. It is situated near Lake Asveja, the longest lake in the country. The town has 260 inhabitants as of 2003.
History
The settlement was first mentioned in 1334, when Teutonic knights razed terra Dubingam during one of their raids. Other raids took place in 1373 and 1375. During the reign of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great the town became an important place in that part of Lithuania. In 1415 Vytautas ordered the building of a new masonry castle.
Later it was governed by the Radziwiłłs who built Dubingiai Castle from stone and town became one of the centres of the Reformation in Lithuania. Many famous members of Radziwiłł family are buried in the churchyard of Dubingiai castle. In 17th century a weave and paper manufactures were established in the town. In 17th century - 18th century the town was slowly re-converted to Catholicism.
A massacre of over 20 Lithuanian inhabitants by a local Armia Krajowa unit occurred in 23 June 1944, during World War II.[1][2] The crime was a retaliation by the Polish commander for an earlier massacre of Polish villagers in Glitiškės by collaborationist Lithuanian police.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b Piotrowski, Tadeusz (1997). Poland's Holocaust. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-0371-3. p.168, p.169
- ^ a b (Polish) Gazeta Wyborcza, 2001-02-14, Litewska prokuratura przesłuchuje weteranów AK (Lithuanian prosecutor questioning AK veterans), last accessed on 7 June 2006
External links
- (Lithuanian) Website of Dubingiai
Coordinates: 55°04′N 25°27′E / 55.067°N 25.45°E
Utena County Municipalities 
Cities Towns Alanta • Andrioniškis • Antalieptė • Balninkai • Daugailiai • Debeikiai • Dubingiai • Giedraičiai • Joniškis • Kuktiškės • Kurkliai • Leliūnai • Mielagėnai • Rimšė • Saldutiškis • Skiemonys • Sudeikiai • Surdegis • Svėdasai • Tauragnai • Traupis • Turmantas • Tverečius • Užpaliai • Viešintos • VyžuonosVillages Aknystos • Avilčiai • Ažuožeriai • Čiulai • Didžiasalis • Ginučiai • Kazitiškis • Kulionys • Naujieji Elmininkai • Palūšė • Raguvėlė • Rokėnai • Rubikiai • Stelmužė • Stripeikiai • Vidiškės • ŽvaigždžiakalnisCategories:- Towns in Lithuania
- Towns in Utena County
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