Smalininkai
Smalininkai | |
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City | |
Piers on the Nemunas River in Smalininkai | |
Nickname(s): Smolnis | |
Smalininkai Location of Smalininkai | |
Coordinates: 55°5′0″N 22°34′0″E / 55.08333°N 22.56667°ECoordinates: 55°5′0″N 22°34′0″E / 55.08333°N 22.56667°E | |
Country |
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Ethnographic region | Lithuania Minor |
County | Tauragė County |
Municipality | Jurbarkas district municipality |
Eldership | Smalininkai eldership |
Capital of | Smalininkai eldership |
First mentioned | 15th century |
Granted city rights | 1945 |
Population (2007) | |
• Total | 621 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Smalininkai (
Name
The name describes a place of tar and pitch burners ("smala": tar, pitch; -ingken: village).
History
Since 1422 (Treaty of Melno) Schmalleningken was a border village at the Lithuanian-German customs frontier. In 1792 it was appointed to a market town. In 1845 the village became a parish and 1878 a church was built there. In 1902 a light railway was built from Pogegen to Schmalleningken. The village had in 1925 1,741 inhabitants and was incorporated into the Landkreis Tilsit-Ragnit in 1939.
Literature
- Kurschat, Heinrich A.: Das Buch vom Memelland, Siebert Oldenburg 1968
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