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Dūkštas

City in Aukštaitija, Lithuania

Coat of arms

55°31′20″N 26°19′10″E / 55.52222°N 26.31944°E / 55.52222; 26.31944Country

LithuaniaEthnographic regionAukštaitijaCounty

Utena CountyMunicipalityIgnalina district municipalityEldershipDūkštas eldershipCapital ofDūkštas eldershipFirst mentioned1862Granted city rights1956Population

(2021)

• Total729Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Dūkštas (pronunciation^ⓘ; Polish: Dukszty) is a city in eastern Lithuania, 26 km (16 mi) north from Ignalina, on the bank of Lake Dūkštas.^[1]

Notable people

Charles Rappoport (1865–1941), militant communist politician, journalist and writer, who lived most of his life in a France
Jerzy Turonek (1929 – 2019) was a Polish-Belarusian historian.^[2]

References

^ "Utenos apskrities gyventojų surašymo duomenys". Lithuanian official statistics department.
^ "'Юры Туронак: І «Пагоня» вернецца, і мова таксама...' ('Jerzy Turonek: the Chase coat of arms will return and the language too')(in Belarusian)".