Sasnava is a small town in
MarijampolÄ— County
Marijampolė County ( lt, Marijampolės apskritis; pl, Okręg mariampolski) is one of the ten counties in Lithuania. It is in the south of the country in the historical Suvalkija region, and its capital is the town Marijampolė
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, in southwestern
Lithuania. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 546.
It is on the confluence of the River and its tributary, the
.
The name of the town comes from the river name Sasnà . The coat of arms of Sasnava was created according to this version. Another version claims that the Sasna stream comes from the Lithuanian word "susna" - which means decayed, withered.
References
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in MarijampolÄ— County
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