Święciany

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Święciany is a historic town in present-day Lithuania that was one of the principal urban centers of the former Wilno Voivodeship.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Święciany canonical 1

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Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historic town
town
administrativeRole district capital
alternativeName Sventsiany
Sventsyany
Sventzion
Svintsyan
Švenčionys
country Lithuania
hasFeature multiethnic history
multilingual heritage
hasStatus municipal center
historicalLanguage Belarusian
Lithuanian
Polish
Yiddish
historicalRegion Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Vilnius Region
locatedIn Vilnius County
historical Vilna Governorate
linked to: Vilna Governorate

northeastern Lithuania
present-day Lithuania
Švenčionys District Municipality
locatedNear Belarus border
nearbyCity Vilnius
region Aukštaitija
religiousHeritage Eastern Orthodox
Jewish community
Roman Catholic
linked to: Roman Catholicism
roleInWilnoVoivodeship principal urban center
timeZone Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Time
wasPartOf Interwar Poland
Second Polish Republic
Wilno Voivodeship
Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)
linked to: Wilno Voivodeship

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Wilno Voivodeship hasMajorCity Święciany