Dieveniškės
| Dieveniškės | ||
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  Dieveniškės Location of Dieveniškės | ||
| Coordinates: 54°11′40″N 25°37′30″E / 54.19444°N 25.62500°ECoordinates: 54°11′40″N 25°37′30″E / 54.19444°N 25.62500°E | ||
| Country |
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| Ethnographic region | Dzūkija | |
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| Municipality | Šalčininkai district municipality | |
| Eldership | Dieveniškės eldership | |
| First mentioned | 1385 | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 720 | |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Dieveniškės (literally: Gods' place, Polish: Dziewieniszki, Belarusian: Дзевянішкі) 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.
History
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].