Kalvarija
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| District : | Marijampolė | ||
| Municipality : | Kalvarija | ||
| Coordinates : | 54 ° 25 ' N , 23 ° 14' E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 4,908 (2010) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+370) 343 | ||
| License plate : | M. | ||
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Kalvarija (Polish Kalwaria , German (outdated) Kalvarien , later also Kalwarja ) is a town and seat of the self-governing municipality of the same name in the southern part of Lithuania . It is located around 70 kilometers southwest of Kaunas and around 140 kilometers west of the state capital Vilnius near the Polish border in the Suvalkija region . The municipality of Kalvarija includes 172 villages in addition to the city.
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Buildings
- Church of the Names of the Virgin Mary , built from 1838 to 1840
- Former Evangelical Lutheran Church, built in 1838, profaned after the Second World War
- Old synagogue
- Beit Midrash Synagogue
Sons of the city
in the order of the year of birth
- Elkhanan Elkes (1879–1944), Lithuanian doctor and “chief Jew ” in Kauen concentration camp
- Isaac Margolis (1842–1887), Russian-Polish rabbi and author
- Meyer London (1871–1926), American politician, New York State Socialist in the US House of Representatives
- Elias Avery Lowe (1879–1969), American paleographer
- Juozas Greifenbergeris (1898–1926), Lithuanian communist and functionary of the communist youth movement
Web links
Commons : Kalvarija - collection of images, videos and audio files
