Gastilonys is a former village in the

Kaišiadorys District Municipality Kaišiadorys District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the ...

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, located 1 kilometer south of Grabučiškės, on the right bank of the

Kaunas Reservoir Kaunas Reservoir (, Kaunas Lagoon, Kaunas Sea) is the largest Lithuanian artificial lake, created in 1959 by damming the Nemunas River near Kaunas and Rumšiškės. It occupies 63.5 square kilometers, which is about 0.1% of the total territory o ...

. The Gastilonys Botanical-Zoological Reserve has been established in the village, where grows.

History

The village used to be on the right bank of the

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, east of . In 1959, Kaunas was flooded during the construction of the

Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant The Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant () is a hydroelectric power plant located on the Nemunas River about southeast of Kaunas, Lithuania. It was completed in 1960 and its dam created the Kaunas Reservoir. Owned by Ignitis Group, it operates in ...

, creating the

Origin of the name

The name of the village comes from the surname ''Gastila''.Aleksandras Vanagas. Išnykę vietovardžiai. „Kauno marios“. Paruošė Lietuvos TSR paminklų apsaugos ir kraštotyros draugijos Kauno skyrius. – Vilnius, „Mokslas“, 1981. // psl. 83–86

References

{{reflist Villages in Kaunas County Former populated places in Lithuania