Panoteriai
| Panoteriai | |||
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| District : | Kaunas | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Jonava | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 12 ' N , 24 ° 26' E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 360 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | LT-55085 | ||
| Status: | Center of Panoteriai subdistrict, Šilai district |
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Panoteriai is a town ( miestelis ) with 360 inhabitants in the district of Jonava , in the Šilai district , 4 km south of the Kėdainiai - Ukmergė road . The place is the seat of self-government ( seniūnaitija ). In Panoteriai there is a Catholic Cross Finding Church, a library, post office (LT-55085) and a cultural center.
history
The place is known from the middle of the 15th century. In the 19th century it was called Koplyčios . In 1441 a chapel was built , which passed to Franciscan reformates before 1584 . In 1700 it caught fire.
In 1918 an official school was founded. From 1930 to 1934 J. Šibaila, partisan of "Geležinis vilkas", head of Žemaitijos apygarda taught there . From September 1944 there was the Panoteriai Progymnasium . In Soviet times, there was the middle school Panoteriai and since 1994 the Petras-Vaičiūnas - secondary school Panoteriai.
people
- Mykolas Požarskas (1927–1986), Soviet-Lithuanian lawyer and politician, Vice Minister
literature
- Panoteriai. Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija . T. 3 (Masaitis-Simno). Vilnius, Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, 1987, 299 psl.
