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Ansainiai (formerly , ) is a village in
Kėdainiai district municipality Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. Kėdainiai were first mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle ...
, in
Kaunas County Kaunas County () is one of ten counties of Lithuania. It is in the centre of the country, and its Capital (political), capital is Kaunas. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished. Symbols The county's coat of arms can be blazoned ...
, in central
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. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 14 people. It is located from
Labūnava Labūnava (formerly , ) is a small town in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, town residents numbered 747. It is from Kėdainiai, on the left bank of the Nevėžis river, by its tri ...
, on the shore of the
Labūnava Reservoir The Labūnava Reservoir is an artificial lake in Kėdainiai District Municipality, in central Lithuania. It is located south from Kėdainiai, next to Labūnava village. It was created in 1977, when a dam on the Barupė river was built next to Lab ...
. 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, bajorkaimis (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 ...
'', a property of the Butkevičiai, Dautartai, Gineikiai, Hanusaučiai, Ivanaičiai, Jagėlavičiai, Jusevičiai, Kšešanavičiai, Stecevičiai, Uginskiai, Vencevičiai families.


Demography

left, 250px, Ansainiai memorial


References

Villages in Kaunas County Kėdainiai District Municipality {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub