Vievis
Vievis (
pronunciation (help·info)) is a smaw ceety in Elektrėnai Municipality, Lithuanie. It is locatit 14 km east o Elektrėnai. The ceety is surroondit bi Loch Vievis.
Vievis | |
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Ceety | |
 Coat airms | |
  Vievis Location o Vievis | |
| Coordinates: 54°46′30″N 24°48′30″E / 54.77500°N 24.80833°E | |
| Kintra |  Lithuanie |
| Ethnographic region | Dzūkija |
| Coonty | Vilnius Coonty |
| Municipality | Elektrėnai Municipality |
| Eldership | Vievis eldership |
| Caipital o | Vievis eldership |
| First mentioned | 1539 |
| Granted city rights | 1950 |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Total | 5,246 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
In 1522 year the Vievis manor, in 1539 year - toun, which belangit tae Ogiński faimily, wis mentioned. In the first hauf o 16t century the first Catholic kirk wis biggit thare.
Aboot 1600, Ogiński faimily biggit a Uniate kirk an foondit the Abbey o the Holy Spirit (Lithuanie: Šventosios dvasios). At the beginnin o the 17t century a printin press wis establisht near the abbey, notable for printin beuks bi various Protestant Calvinist scholars.[1]
In 1794 an 1812, the kirk burned doun an wis rebiggit in 1816. In 1837 an Orthodox kirk wis biggit.
In the period atween Warld War I an Warld War II, Vievis was near the dividing line atween Lithuanie an Poland. The toun uised tae be amang those wi the lairgest Pols population, wi roughly 77% inhabitants identifeein thairsels as Poles. In 2011 census, anerly 10.9% o inhabitants identifee'd thairsels as Poles as well as 3.74% Roushies an 82.56% Lithuanies.[2]
The 17t century printin press became the raison why a 1970s samizdat jurnal "Lustra dzion" editit bi Vincuk Viačorka citit "Jewie" as the place o its publishin (even tho it wis in fact publisht in Minsk).[3] The printin press is featured on the modren coat o airms o the ceety an aw, adoptit in 1999.
The Lithuanie Road Museum is in the ceety.
Notes an references
eedit- ↑ (in Pols) (in Roushie) (in Belaroushie) Mikałaj Pačkajeŭ (2003). "Epoka reformacji i kontrreformacji". Historia Litheranorum Alboruthenorum sive Zarys Historyczny Kościoła Luterańskiego na Białorusi od zarania reformacji aż do czasów obecnych. Mikałaj Pačkajeŭ. Archived frae the original on 2 Mey 2008. Retrieved 16 Mairch 2008. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|coauthors=(help) - ↑ "Lithuania 2011 Census". Lietuvos statistikos departamentas. 2011. Archived frae the original on 11 Januar 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2013. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|1=(help) - ↑ (in Pols) Ośrodek Karta (corporate author) (2000?). ""Lustra Dzion" (Zwierciadło Codzienności)". Słownik dysydentów. Karta. Archived frae the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2008-03-16. Check date values in:
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