Dubingiai

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Dubingiai (Polish: Dubinki) is a town in Molėtai district in Lithuania. It is situated near Lake Asveja, the longest lake in the country. It was the site of the infamous Dubingiai massacre during the Second World War. The town has 260 inhabitants as of 2003.

Contents 1 History 2 Notes 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

The town was first mentioned in 1334, when Teutonic knights razed terra Dubingam during one of their raids. Other raids took place in 1373 and 1375. During the reign of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas 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 the Radziwiłłs who built Dubingiai Castle from stone and town became one of the centres of the reformation in Lithuania. Many famous members of Radziwiłł family are buried here. In 17th century - 18th century the town was slowly re-converted to Catholicism.

The town is infamous^{[citation needed]} for the massacre of few dozens of local Lithuanian people by a local Armia Krajowa unit occurred in 23 June, 1944, during World War II.^[1][2] The crime was supposed to be a retaliation by the Polish commander for an earlier massacre of Polish villagers in Glitiškės by colaborationist Lithuanian police. ^{[1] [3]}

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[edit] References

• (Polish) Kozłowski, Patryk (2004). Jeden z wyklętych. Zygmunt Szendzielarz "Łupaszko". ISBN 83-7399-073-9. 
• (Lithuanian) K. Garšva; A. Bubnys, E. Gečiauskas, J. Lebionka, J. Saudargienė, R. Zizas (1995). "Armijos Krajovos ištakos ir ideologija Lietuvoje" (Beginnings and ideology of Armia Krajowa in Lithuania). Armija Krajova Lietuvoje. ISBN 9986-577-02-0. 
• (English) Piotrowski, Tadeusz (1997,). "Poland's Holocaust". McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-0371-3. 

[edit] External links

• (Lithuanian) Website of Dubingiai

Coordinates: 55°04′N, 25°27′E