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Žeimelis
Žeimelis is a small town in northern Lithuania, 40 km to the north from Pakruojis, near the border with Latvia. It is a centre of an elderate. According to a census in 2011, Žeimelis had 953 residents. Town of Žeimelis is a state-protected urbanistic monument. The town of Žeimelis has a town square with inns from the 18th and 19th centuries; the inns were adjusted for defensive needs as well. Žeimelis has museum of Semigallia. History The lands were inhabited by the Baltic tribe Semigallians. Žeimelis manor was first mentioned in 1500. In 1542 Žeimelis was known as a town. In 1592–1674 school of reformats was operating. Since the 17th century Žeimelis was a place of big markets. Field Marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly was baptized in the Lutheran church on December 27, 1761. The high school was established in 1920. An agriculture school was founded in 1937. In August 1941, a total of 160 Jews from Žeimelis were murdered by an Einsatzgruppe. The mass e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miasteczko
A ( or (, ) was a historical type of urban settlement similar to a market town in the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the partitions of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century, these settlements became widespread in the Austrian, German and Russian empires. The vast majority of miasteczki had significant or even predominant Jewish populations; these are known in English under the Yiddish term ''shtetl''. Miasteczki had a special administrative status other than that of town or city. The meaning "small town" is somewhat misleading since some 19th-century shtetls, such as Berdychiv or Bohuslav, counted over 15,000 people. Therefore, after Russian authorities annexed parts of Poland-Lithuania (which included parts of modern Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania), they had difficulties in formally defining what a miasteczko is. Typically, miasteczki grew out of or remained private towns belonging to Polish-Lithuanian landlords, usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |