Medininkai
Medininkai is a village in Lithuania. Administrationwise it is centre to the Medininkai Eldership, which forms part of the Vilnius District Municipality; the district itself is in turn part of the Vilnius County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 493 residents
- Description: village in Lithuania
- Also known as: “Medininkay”, “Medniki”, “Medninkai”, and “Medninkay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Medininkai Castle and Church of the Holy Trinity and St. Casimir, Medininkai.
Medininkai Castle
Castle
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Medininkai Castle, a medieval castle in Vilnius district, eastern Lithuania. Castle was built in the first half of the 14th century. The defensive perimeter of the castle was 6.5 ha; it is the largest enclosure type castle in Lithuania, and one of the largest castles in Central and North-Eastern Europe.
Aukštojas Hill
Peak
Photo: Resutas, Public domain.
Aukštojas Hill is the highest point of Lithuania. It is located in the Medininkai Highlands, Migūnai forestry, approximately 24 kilometres southeast of the capital city of Vilnius.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Juozapinė and Padvarionys.
Tumosai
Village
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Tumosai is a village, which is situated 4½ km west of Medininkai.
Medininkai
- Category: locality
- Location: Medininkų sen., Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
54.53667° or 54° 32′ 12″ northLongitude
25.647° or 25° 38′ 49″ eastPopulation
493Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)United Nations Location Code
LT MDKOpen location code
9G67GJPW+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 316010690OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Medininkai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Medininkai”
- Armenian: “Մեդինինկայ”
- Belarusian: “Меднікі”
- Belarusian: “Мядзінінкай”
- Catalan: “Medininkai”
- Cebuano: “Medininkai”
- Chinese: “Medininkai”
- Chinese: “梅迪宁凯”
- Chinese: “梅迪尼恩凱”
- Dutch: “Medininkai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدينينكاى”
- French: “Medininkai”
- German: “Medininkai”
- Hungarian: “Medininkai”
- Lithuanian: “Medininkai”
- Lithuanian: “Medininkų žudynės”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Medininkai”
- Polish: “Miedniki Królewskie”
- Polish: “Miedniki”
- Romanian: “Medininkai”
- Russian: “Медининкай”
- Russian: “Медники”
- Russian: “Мядининкай”
- Samogitian: “Medėninkā (Vėlnios)”
- Ukrainian: “Медінінкай”
- Ukrainian: “Мідники”
- “Medėninkā”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Medininkų seniūnija and Medininkų pilis.
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