Antalieptė
![Flag of Antalieptė](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Flag_of_Antaliept%C4%97.png/100px-Flag_of_Antaliept%C4%97.png)
![Coat of arms of Antalieptė](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Coat_of_arms_of_Antaliept%C4%97.svg/100px-Coat_of_arms_of_Antaliept%C4%97.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Utena_County_COA.png/17px-Utena_County_COA.png)
Antalieptė ([anˈtaːlʲɛpteː]) (Polish: Antolepty) is a small town in Zarasai district municipality, near the Duseta–Daugailiai road and the right bank of the Šventoji riverhead. The town is also 4 km from the village of Zabičiūnai.
Antalieptė has a secondary school and post office (postode: LT-32013). In Šventoji valley there is the Antalieptė Cross Discovery church, also there was Antalieptė Discalced Carmelites monastery. Antalieptė also has House of Culture, library (from 1941) and a water mill (built 1855 from broken and round rocks, red bricks and lime; mill was working until 1966).
History
According to the 1897 census, 85.5% of the population of the town was Jewish. The Jews immigrated before World War II or were murdered during the Holocaust in Nazi occupied Lithuania by both Germans and Lithuanians.[1][2]
References
This Utena County, Lithuania location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e