Jieznas
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| District : | Kaunas | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Prienai | ||
| Coordinates : | 54 ° 36 ' N , 24 ° 11' E | ||
| Height : | 109 m | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 1,300 (2010) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | LT-59058 | ||
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Jieznas is a town of 1,300 inhabitants in the Prienai district , 15 kilometers east of Prienai , Lithuania . The place is the center of the district Jieznas (founded 1995), which has three subdistricts ( seniūnaitija ): Centro, Mokyklos, Vilniaus. Jieznas Lake lies south of the village, and the Jieznelė River flows near the village .
There is the Catholic Church of Archangel Michael and John the Baptist , built in 1670 , the Jieznas manor , a grammar school founded in 1793 with 448 students, a post office and a military cemetery.
people
- Jonas Asevičius-Acukas (1885–1976), soldier
- Algirdas Bagušinskas (* 1958 in Gripiškės near Jieznas), Lithuanian politician
- Angelė Bajorienė (* 1961 in Sabuva, Jieznas District), Lithuanian politician
- Vytautas Bernatonis (* 1940 in Šiliniai, Jieznas district), Lithuanian engineer and politician
- Egidijus Bičkauskas (* 1955), lawyer and politician, member of the Seimas, Vice-President of Parliament
- Vincas Grigaliūnas-Glovackis (1885–1964), soldier
- Juozas Jaruševičius , forester, politician
- Ramutis Karmalavičius (* 1952), literary scholar
- Domicelė Mikalauskaitė (* 1923 in Sobuva near Jieznas), Lithuanian physiologist and biochemist
- Pac , noble family
- Nicodemas Silvanavičius (1834–1919), painter
literature
- Jiezno jaunieji partizanai, 1952–1954 m. (Sud. Antanas Ragavičius). - Kaunas: Arx Baltica, 2010. - 119 p .: iliustr. - ISBN 978-9955-39-092-3
Web links
Commons : Jieznas - collection of images, videos and audio files
