Kavarskas

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Kavarskas
City
Coat of arms
Kavarskas Location of Kavarskas
Coordinates: 55°26′0″N 24°55′0″E / 55.43333°N 24.91667°E / 55.43333; 24.91667Coordinates: 55°26′0″N 24°55′0″E / 55.43333°N 24.91667°E / 55.43333; 24.91667
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Aukštaitija
County	Utena County
Municipality	Anykščiai district municipality
Capital of	Kavarskas eldership
First mentioned	1538
Population  (2007)
• Total	707
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Kavarskas (pronunciation (help·info); Polish: Kowarsk), with a population of only 700, is the fourth smallest city in Lithuania. The Šventoji River flows through the town. In 1956 near Kavarskas a water lifting station was built and part of the Šventoji River's water was channeled to the Nevėžis River. Nowadays there is a water-power plant operating there.

History[]

Where the modern town is today located, in the 15th century there was the Mažieji Pienionys (Little Pienionys) estate. At the end of the 15th century, the Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander Jagiellon transferred the estate to Stanislovas Kovarskis, the treasurer of the king. As he had no successors, the estate was inherited by his brother, Andrius Kovarskis, the canon of the Vilnius Cathedral. Thus, the name of the Little Pienionys estate was changed to Kavarskas.

In written sources, Kavarskas was first mentioned in 1538. In that year, a church was built. In the 16th century, Kavarskas and the surrounding area belonged to nobles Astikai, later – Ogiński (Oginskiai), Tyszkiewicz (Tiškevičiai), and .

During the summer of 1941, the Jewish population was murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by Germans and Lithuanian nationalists.^[1]

In 1956, Kavarskas was granted town rights.

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