Pasvalys

Pasvalys
City

Coat of arms
Pasvalys
Location of Pasvalys
Coordinates: 56°3′34″N 24°24′13″E / 56.05944°N 24.40361°E / 56.05944; 24.40361Coordinates: 56°3′34″N 24°24′13″E / 56.05944°N 24.40361°E / 56.05944; 24.40361
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic region Aukštaitija
County Panevėžys County
Municipality Pasvalys district municipality
Capital of Pasvalys district municipality
Pasvalys city eldership
Pasvalys rural eldership
First mentioned 1497
Granted city rights 1946
Population (2011)
 • Total 7,523
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Website www.pasvalys.lt

Pasvalys ( pronunciation ; Yiddish: פּאָסװאָל‎ Posvol) is a city in Panevėžys County, Lithuania, located near the bank of the Svalia River. Its sister city is Götene in Sweden.

History

In 1557, the Treaty of Pozvol was signed in the town, which provoked Ivan IV of Russia to start the Livonian War.

In August 1941, 1349 Jews from the village and the surroundings were executed by an Einsatzgruppen of Germans and Lithuanian collaborators as mentioned in the Jäger Report.[1]

Education

Pasvalys Gimnasium of Petras Vileisis.

Twin towns and Sister cities

Pasvalys is twinned with:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/49/


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