Kėdainiai district municipality
Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. First mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle of Hermann de Wartberge, its population is 23,667. Its old town dates to ...
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Kaunas County
Kaunas County ( lt, Kauno apskritis) is one of ten counties of Lithuania. It is in the centre of the country, and its capital is Kaunas. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished.
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The county's coat of arms can be blazon ...
, central Lithuania. It flows for .
The river is a left tributary of the
Smilga
Smilga may refer to:
* Smilga (river), Lithuania
Surname
* Ivan Smilga (Jānis Smilga) (1898-1918), Soviet Latvian soldier buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
* Ivar Smilga (1892–1938), Soviet Bolshevik leader
* Kārlis Smilga (born 1975), ...
, which flows into the
Neman
The Neman, Nioman, Nemunas or MemelTo bankside nations of the present: Lithuanian: be, Нёман, , ; russian: Неман, ''Neman''; past: ger, Memel (where touching Prussia only, otherwise Nieman); lv, Nemuna; et, Neemen; pl, Niemen; ; ...
via the
Nevėžis
The Nevėžis () is the sixth longest river in Lithuania and one of the main tributaries of the Nemunas. Its length is , and it flows only within the geographical confines of Lithuania.Krakės-Dotnuva forest and Josvainiai forest).
The Tranys passes through
Špitolpievis
Špitolpievis ('meadow of '' szpital, formerly russian: Шпитольпевисъ, pl, Szpitolpewis) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a pop ...
and Patranys villages.
The name ''Tranys'' possibly comes from Lithuanian verbs ''tranėti, trenėti, trūnyti'' ('to rot, to putrefy, to decay').