Panevėžys County
Panevėžys County ( lt, Panevėžio apskritis) is one of ten counties in Lithuania. It is in the north-east of the country, and its capital is Panevėžys. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Panevė� ...
Svalia River
The Svalia is a 36-km long river in northern Lithuania and a right tributary of the LÄ—vuo river.Treaty of Pasvalys was signed in the town, which provoked Ivan IV of Russia to start the
Livonian War
The Livonian War (1558–1583) was the Russian invasion of Old Livonia, and the prolonged series of military conflicts that followed, in which Tsar Ivan the Terrible of Russia (Muscovy) unsuccessfully fought for control of the region (pre ...
. Pasvalys has mineral spring waters – in 1923 physician K. Armonas created a small sanatorium. At this time about 200 people spent time in sanatorium yearly.
Soviet occupation and mass deportations in 1941 were devastating – most of the most active teachers and civil servants, intellectuals were deported to remote regions in Russia and Central Asia.
In August 1941, 1349 Jews from the village and the surroundings were executed by 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 local collaborators as mentioned in the Jäger Report.
After 1944 Soviet mass deportations started again – the main target were farmers and their families. Hundreds of families were deported. The program of forced collectivisation has started.
Since 1947 partisans of Pasvalys district fought against Soviet occupants. Pasvalys' partisans belonged to Algimantas military district (''apygarda''), later - to
Vytis military district
Vytis military district (also Vytis partisan military district) is a military district of Lithuanian partisans which operated in 1944–1953 in the counties of Panevėžys and Ukmergė as well in some parts of the Kėdainiai
KÄ—dainiai () is ...
of the
Lithuanian partisans
The Lithuanian partisans () were partisans who waged a guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953. Similar anti-Soviet resistance groups, also known as Forest Brothers and cursed soldiers, fought against Soviet ru ...
. Most of the partisans operated in ''Žalioji rinktinė'' (''The Green Squad''), which was based in ''Žalioji giria'' (''The Green Forest'').Apie pokario kovas Pasvalio krašte /ref>
Education
Pasvalys Gimnasium of Petras Vileisis.
Industry
Pasvalys is famous for its farmhouse beer and is a part of Beer Route in Lithuania.
Cheese factory owned by company Pieno Žvaigždės is located in the city.
Sports
Pasvalys has its basketball club -
BC Pieno žvaigždės
BC Pieno žvaigždės ( lt, Krepšinio klubas Pieno žvaigždės) is a professional basketball club from Pasvalys, Lithuania which currently plays in the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). The club name comes from the main sponsor Pieno žvai ...
Livonian Order
The Livonian Order was an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order,
formed in 1237. From 1435 to 1561 it was a member of the Livonian Confederation.
History
The order was formed from the remnants of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword after t ...
File:Silas.JPG, Pinewood and stadium
File:Pasvalio Stadionas.JPG, Pasvalys stadium
File:Pasvalys Church.jpg, Pasvalys Church, with fractures due to earth instability visible
File:Pasvalys2009.JPG, Pasvalys in winter
File:Pasvalio Å¡altinis, piltuvas.JPG, The Green Spring in Pasvalys
Twin towns and Sister cities
Pasvalys is
twinned
Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to:
* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
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Żory
Żory (; german: Sohrau, szl, Żory) is a town and city county in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland with 62,462 inhabitants (2019). Previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is located in the historic Upper Silesia region about sou ...
in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...