Dubingiai | |
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 The church in Dubingiai | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Dubingiai Location of Dubingiai | |
| Coordinates:55°03′40″N25°27′00″E / 55.06111°N 25.45000°E /55.06111; 25.45000 | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
| County |  Utena County |
| Municipality | Molėtai district municipality |
| Eldership | Dubingiai eldership |
| Capital of | Dubingiai eldership |
| First mentioned | 1334 |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 208 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Dubingiai (Polish:Dubinki) is a town inMolėtai district inLithuania. It is situated nearLake Asveja, the longest lake in the country. The town has 208 inhabitants as of 2017.[1]
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The settlement was first mentioned in 1334, whenTeutonic knights razedterra Dubingam during one of their raids. Other raids took place in 1373 and 1375. During the reign of the Grand Duke of LithuaniaVytautas the Great the town became an important place in that part of Lithuania. In 1415 Vytautas ordered the building of a new masonry castle.
Later it was governed by theRadziwiłłs who builtDubingiai Castle from rock and town became one of the centres of theReformation in Lithuania. Many famous members of Radziwiłł family were burned and are buried in the churchyard of Dubingiai castle. In the 17th century weave and paper manufactures were established in the town. In the 17th century - 18th century the town was slowly re-converted toCatholicism.
Within theGrand Duchy of Lithuania, Dubingiai belonged toVilnius Voivodeship. It was annexed by theRussian Empire after theThird Partition of Poland in 1795 and became a part ofVilna Governorate.
Amassacre of over 20 Lithuanian inhabitants by a localHome Army unit occurred on 23 June 1944, duringWorld War II.[2][3] The crime was a retaliation by the Polish commander foran earlier massacre of Polish villagers inGlitiškės by collaborationist Lithuanian police.[2][3]
