Dūkštas | |
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City | |
![]() Church of Dūkštas | |
Coordinates: 55°31′20″N 26°19′10″E / 55.52222°N 26.31944°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
County | ![]() |
Municipality | Ignalina district municipality |
Eldership | Dūkštas eldership |
Capital of | Dūkštas eldership |
First mentioned | 1862 |
Granted city rights | 1956 |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 729 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Dūkštas (; 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]
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