Švenčionėliai | |
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Village | |
.jpg) Švenčionėliai panorama | |
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  Švenčionėliai Location of Švenčionėliai | |
| Coordinates:55°10′N26°0′E / 55.167°N 26.000°E /55.167; 26.000 | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
| County |  Vilnius County |
| Municipality | Švenčionys district municipality |
| Eldership | Švenčionėliai eldership |
| Capital of | Švenčionėliai eldership |
| First mentioned | End of the 16th century |
| Granted village rights | 1920 |
| Area | |
• Total | 6 km2 (2.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• Total | 4,748[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Švenčionėliai (pronunciationⓘ) is a city inŠvenčionys district municipality, in easternLithuania 10 km west ofŠvenčionys. The riverŽeimena flows through Švenčionėliai.
On 10 July 1920, it was the site of a battle of thePolish–Soviet War, won by the Russians. Afterwards, in the interwar period, Nowe Święciany, as it was known in Polish, was administratively located in the Święciany County in theWilno Voivodeship of Poland.
After the joint German-Sovietinvasion of Poland, which startedWorld War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by the Soviets, who handed it over to Lithuania, to eventually re-occupy it in 1940, then from 1941 it was occupied byNazi Germany and in 1944 it was re-occupied by the Soviet Union. In 1940, there were around 1,000 Jews, i.e. 20 percent of the total population. All of them were murdered in October 1941 in theŠvenčionėliai massacre.[2][unreliable source?]
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