Ansainiai (formerly russian: Ганусевичи, pl, Hanusewicze)
[ is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in ]Kaunas County
Kaunas County ( lt, Kauno apskritis) is one of ten counties of Lithuania
The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties ( Lithuanian: singular ''apskritis'', plural ''apskritys''), all named after their capitals. The counties are ...
, in central Lithuania
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. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 14 people.[ It is located from ]Labūnava
Labūnava (formerly russian: Лабуновъ, Лабуново, pl, Łabunów) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 747 people. It ...
, on the shore of the Labūnava Reservoir
The Labūnava Reservoir is an artificial lake in Kėdainiai District Municipality, central Lithuania. It is located south from Kėdainiai, next to Labūnava village. It was created in 1977, when a dam on the Barupė
The Barupė is a river of Jo ...
. There is a memorial for exiled local inhabitants during the Soviet era.
History
In the beginning of the 20th century, Ansainiai (''Hanusewicze'') was an ''okolica In Poland and Lithuania okolica szlachecka or akalica (in Lithuanian) is a kind of estate village (''neighbourhood of the nobility''), or a complex of several villages of the same first part of the name and different second part. In the past, it was ...
'', a property of the Butkevičiai, Dautartai, Gineikiai, Hanusaučiai, Ivanaičiai, Jagėlavičiai, Jusevičiai, Kšešanavičiai, Stecevičiai, Uginskiai, Vencevičiai families.[
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Demography
left, 250px, Ansainiai memorial
References
Villages in Kaunas County
Kėdainiai District Municipality
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