Ukmergė
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| District : | Vilnius district | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 15 ′ N , 24 ° 45 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 21,226 (2017) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | LT-20116 | ||
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Ukmergė (German Wilkomir ) is a city in eastern Lithuania and is located on the banks of the Šventoji . It is the seat of the same name Rajongemeinde ( Ukmergės rajono savivaldybė ) and has within that the status of an office district.
history
In 1225 Wilkemirgene was mentioned in the Chronica nova Prutenica by Wigand von Marburg . Originally it was called Vilkamergė ( vilkas , German wolf , + merga , girl). The place was only mentioned in 1333. In 1486 the city was granted city rights under Magdeburg law . In the city there is a large castle hill of a medieval castle complex.
Until 1914 the city was called Vilkmergė (synonyms: Aukmergė , Likmerė ; Polish Wiłkomierz , Russian Вилькомир ).
It was not until the 1940s that the city name Ukmergė dominated and then became official in the post-war period.
From 1940 to June 22, 1941, the city was occupied by the Soviets , at which time deportations began. After the German attack on the Soviet Union , the German occupiers shot and killed around 10,000 Jewish residents of the city. During the Second World War , the place was badly affected by bombing.
Rajong Parish
The district municipality of Ukmergė includes the town of Ukmergė, 10 towns ( miesteliai ) and 612 villages. The towns are Deltuva, Lyduokiai, Pabaiskas, Siesikai, Šešuoliai, Taujėnai, Vepriai, Vidiškiai, Želva and Žemaitkiemis.
It is divided into twelve administrative districts ( seniūnijos ):
- Deltuva
- Lyduokiai
- Pabaiskas
- Pivonija based in Ukmergė
- Siesikai
- Šešuoliai based in Liaušiai
- Taujėnai
- Ukmergė city
- Vepriai
- Vidiškiai
- Želva
- Žemaitkiemis
people
- Bruno Abakanowicz (1852–1900), mathematician and electrical engineer
- Alexander Braudo (1864–1924), Lithuanian-Russian historian and librarian
- Ossip Pyatnitsky (1882–1938), Soviet politician
- Solomon Lewit (1894–1938), Soviet geneticist
- Stanisław Lech Woronowicz (* 1941), Polish mathematician and physicist
- Ričardas Sargūnas (born 1954), politician
- Vida Vencienė (* 1961), cross-country skier
- Osvaldas Čiukšys (* 1966), diplomat and politician
- Evaldas Ignatavičius (* 1967), diplomat and politician
- Guoda Burokienė (* 1970), politician and agricultural functionary
- Vytautas Šlapikas (* 1973), chess player
- Gediminas Grinius (* 1979), mountain and ultramarathon runner
- Marius Paškevičius (* 1979), judoka
- Gytis Ivanauskas (* 1980), actor, dancer and choreographer
- Edvinas Kerza (* 1980), politician
- Arūnas Dudėnas (* 1983), politician
- Tadas Eliošius (* 1990), football player
literature
- Markus Polag, Franz Rappel: Lithuania & Curonian Spit. 1st edition, Iwanowski's Reisebuchverlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-933041-29-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marius Paškevičius in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )