Place:Varėna, Alytus, Lithuania

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NameVarėna
Alt namesVarėnasource: Family History Library Catalog
Varėnasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Varėna districtsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeDistrict Municipality
Coordinates54.25°N 24.583°E
Located inAlytus, Lithuania
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Merkinė
Valkininkai
Varėna
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Varėna District Municipality is a municipality in Alytus County in southern Lithuania.

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History

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Along with Vilnius region, a large part of Varėna District Municipality was on the Polish side of not-mutually recognized border during the interwar period. This was mainly due to the strategic Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway. Unlike in neighboring regions, where the number of Poles is high, the territories now comprising the municipality always had a Lithuanian majority. The Varėna District, as it was then called, was formed during the Soviet Union, with the small town of Varėna chosen as the capital. Varėna was chosen over the then much larger Senoji Varėna (literally "Old Varėna") as the capital, due to its proximity to a railroad. It only became the center of region in the 1970s when it underwent industrialization under Soviet leadership. During a municipality reform the territory was renamed to Varėna District Municipality and the westernmost parts of it ceded to Druskininkai Municipality.

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