Pasvalys
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| District : | Panevėžys | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Pasvalys | ||
| Coordinates : | 56 ° 4 ′ N , 24 ° 24 ′ E | ||
| Area (place) : | 7 km² | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 7,523 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 1,075 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | 39001 | ||
| Status: | Core town of the district of Pasvalys | ||
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Pasvalys (German and Polish Poswol ) is a city and seat of the Rajongemeinde of the same name in Lithuania .
Location and inhabitants
Pasvalys is located on the Svalia River in the Panevėžys district in the north of the country and officially had 7,523 inhabitants in 2011.
history
Pasvalys was founded in 1497. Every year on September 20th, this event is commemorated with a city festival.
In 1557 the Treaty of Poswol was concluded here, so that the so-called Koadjutor feud in Livonia came to an end. From 1779 to 1787 St. John the Baptist Church was built.
Personalities
- Petras Avižonis (1875–1939), ophthalmologist
- Vytautas Kriščiūnas (1908–1991), civil engineer and politician
- Evaldas Gustas (* 1959), politician, minister of economics and vice minister
- Arūnas Kundrotas (* 1963), politician
- Raimundas Karoblis (* 1968), administrative lawyer, diplomat and politician
- Robertas Paužuolis (* 1972), handball player
literature
- Pasvalys , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 578
Web links
Commons : Pasvalys - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census. Statistics Departamentas (Lithuania), accessed on August 3, 2017 .