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Lankesa Botanical Sanctuary
The Lankesa is a river in central Lithuania. It flows for and has a basin area of . It is a left tributary of the Obelis. It begins nearby Reniūnai village in Ukmergė District Municipality, then flows to the south west through Jonava District Municipality. After a confluence with the Medukšna it turns to the north west and runs through Kėdainiai District Municipality till it meets the Obelis in Valkaičiai. After bigger rains it often overflows own course. It often dries out during summers and freezes up to the bottom during winters. Gaižūnai, Jonava, Gaižūnai, Pasraučiai, Martyniškis, Jonava, Martyniškis, Žeimių GS, Palankesiai, Žeimiai, Užkapiai, Vainiūnai, Kėdainiai, Vainiūnai, Stašaičiai settlements are located on the banks of the Lankesa. At its confluence with the Obelis the Stašaičiai hillfort stands. The hydronym ''Lankesa'' derives either from Lithuanian word ''lanka'' ('flood-meadow'), or from ''lankas, lankstas'' ('bend, crook'). References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Užkapiai
Užkapiai ('place beyond graves', formerly , ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 99 people. It is located from Šėta, along the Nociūnai-Šėta road, by the Lankesa river and the Bubliai Reservoir. The Lankesa Botanical Sanctuary is located next to Užkapiai. In the end of the 19th century Užkapiai was an estate, a property of the Virbickai and the Narkevičiai families. Demography file:Užkapiai, kryžius.JPG, left, 160px, Wayside cross in Užkapiai References Villages in Kaunas County Kėdainiai District Municipality {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Environment (Lithuania)
The Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania () oversees the environment and natural resources in Lithuania. Its mission is: *To implement the principle of sustainable development; *To set preconditions for rational utilization, protection and restoration of natural resources; *To ensure provision of information about the state of environment and its forecasts to the public; *To create conditions for the development of construction business and the provision of residents with housing; *To ensure a proper environmental quality, taking into account the norms and standards of the European Union. The Environment Protection Department, accountable to the Supreme Council – Reconstituent Seimas, was established to oversee environment protection and exploitation of natural resources after Lithuania restored its independence in 1990. In 1996, the Department was reorganized into Ministry of Environmental Protection. In 1998, after the merger with Ministry of Housing and Urba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarybų Lietuvos Enciklopedija
''Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija'' or TLE (translation: ''Encyclopedia of Soviet Lithuania'') was an encyclopedia of the Lithuanian SSR, covering topics such as archaeology, history, nature, science, cultural heritage, cities, districts, biographies of famous people and politics, but only as they relate to Lithuania. It was published in four volumes between 1985 and 1988 in Vilnius Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population w .... It was derived from the 12-volume '' Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija'' but TLE did not cover general areas such as technology, biology, pharmacology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics and others. Volumes * Volume 1: A–Grūdas, 1985 * Volume 2: Grūdas–Marvelis, 1986 * Volume 3: Masaitis–Simno, 1987 * Volume 4: Simno–Žvorūnė, 1988 Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flood-meadow
A flood-meadow (or floodmeadow) is an area of grassland or pasture beside a river, subject to seasonal flooding.Huhta, Ari‐Pekka, Rautio, Pasi (2014). Flood meadows in Finland - their development during the past century. '' Nordic Journal of Botany'' 32 (6): 858–70 Flood-meadows are distinct from water-meadows in that the latter are artificially created and maintained, with flooding controlledEmma Rothero, Sophie Lake, David Gowing, eds. Floodplain Meadows – Beauty and Utility: A Technical Handbook'' (Floodplain Meadows Partnership; 2016) on a seasonal and even daily basis. Examples Austria: * Hohenau an der March Bosnia and Herzegovina: * List of karst polje in Bosnia and Herzegovina Estonia: * Emajõe flood-meadow * Kasari, Matsalu National Park Finland: * Mattholmsfladan, Pargas * Levänluhta, Isokyrö Ireland: * Shannon Callows United Kingdom: * Angel & Greyhound Meadow, Oxford * Christchurch Meadows, Reading * Christ Church Meadow, Oxford * Mill Mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydronym
A hydronym (from , , "water" and , , "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans. As a subset of toponymy, a distinctive discipline of ''hydronymy'' (or ''hydronomastics'') studies the proper names of all bodies of water, the origins and meanings of those names, and their development and transmission through history. Classification by water types Within the onomastic classification, main types of hydronyms are (in alphabetical order): * helonyms: proper names of swamps, marshes and bogs * limnonyms: proper names of lakes and ponds * oceanonyms: proper names of oceans * pelagonyms: proper names of seas and maritime bays * potamonyms: proper names of rivers and streams Linguistic phenomena Often, a given body of water will have several entirely different names given to it by different peoples living along its shores. For example, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stašaičiai
Stašaičiai (formerly , ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 11 people. It is located from Aukštieji Kapliai, alongside the Nociūnai-Šėta road, by the confluence of the Obelis The Obelis is a river in the Ukmergė district municipality and Kėdainiai district municipality in central Lithuania. It flows for and has a basin area of . It is a left tributary of the Nevėžis into which it flows near Kėdainiai. The river ... (now as the Bubliai Reservoir) and the Lankesa rivers. The Stašaičiai hillfort is located in the village. Demography left, 250px, Stašaičiai hillfort References Villages in Kaunas County Kėdainiai District Municipality {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vainiūnai, Kėdainiai
Vainiūnai (formerly ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 14 people. It is located from Beinaičiai, by the Lankesa river and the Bubliai Reservoir. The road Šėta-Nociūnai Nociūnai (formerly , ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality of Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had 304 residents. It is located from Kėdainiai, by the Barupė river, next to the crossro ... goes nearby. There is a water tower and a farm. Demography left, 250px, Vainiūnai roadsign References Villages in Kaunas County Kėdainiai District Municipality {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žeimiai
Žeimiai () is a small town in Kaunas County in central Lithuania the center of the Žeimiai Eldership. As of 2011 it had a population of 860. History Before the Holocaust, the town had a Jewish population who were murdered in 1941 in mass executions perpetrated an einsatzgruppen (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the imp ... of Germans and Lithuanian collaborators. Polish architect Wacław Michniewicz, who was responsible for designing many buildings in Lithuania, designed the church in the town, and was buried in the churchyard there in 1947. References *''Parts of this article were initially translated from the Lithuanian Wikipedia.'' Jonava District Municipality Towns in Lithuania Towns in Kaunas County Kovensky Uyezd Holocaust locations in Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
