Biržai
Biržai is a city in northern Lithuania. Famous for its reconstructed Biržai Castle manor, the whole region is renowned for its many traditional-recipe beer breweries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Birzai Muziejus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 12,500 residents
- Description: town
- Also known as: “Birsche”, “Birzai”, “Birzhay”, “Birzhi”, “Biržų”, and “Myasto Birzhay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Biržai Radziwiłł Castle and Aušra school, Biržai.
Biržai Radziwiłł Castle
Museum
Photo: Lazdynas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Biržai Castle is a 16th century castle in Biržai, northern Lithuania. It is located in Aukštaitija region, Panevėžys County. The castle was the first Italian-style bastion fort in Lithuania and one of the first in North-Eastern Europe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Town and Biržai.
Biržai
- Category: locality
- Location: Biržų miesto sen., Biržai District Municipality, Panevėžys County, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.19991° or 56° 11′ 60″ northLongitude
24.75711° or 24° 45′ 26″ eastPopulation
12,500Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)United Nations Location Code
LT BRZOpen location code
9G865QX4+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 195151555OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Biržai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Biržai”
- Arabic: “برجي”
- Asturian: “Biržai”
- Azerbaijani: “Birjay”
- Basque: “Birzai”
- Basque: “Biržai”
- Belarusian: “Біржай”
- Belarusian: “Біржы”
- Catalan: “Biržai”
- Cebuano: “Birzai”
- Chinese: “比爾扎伊”
- Czech: “Biržai”
- Danish: “Biržai bykommune”
- Danish: “Biržai distriktskommune”
- Danish: “Birzai”
- Danish: “Biržai”
- Dimli (individual language): “Biržai”
- Dutch: “Birzai”
- Dutch: “Biržai”
- Esperanto: “Birsen”
- Esperanto: “Birzai”
- Esperanto: “Biržai”
- Estonian: “Biržai”
- Finnish: “Birzai”
- Finnish: “Biržai”
- French: “Birzai”
- French: “Biržai”
- French: “Birze”
- French: “Birże”
- Georgian: “ბირჟაი”
- German: “Birsen”
- German: “Birzai”
- German: “Biržai”
- Greek: “Μπιρζάι”
- Greek: “Μπίρζαϊ”
- Hebrew: “בירז‘”
- Hebrew: “בירז’”
- Hungarian: “Birzai”
- Hungarian: “Biržai”
- Indonesian: “Birzai”
- Indonesian: “Biržai”
- Italian: “Biržai”
- Japanese: “ビルジャイ”
- Korean: “비르자이”
- Latgalian: “Bierži”
- Latvian: “Biržai”
- Latvian: “Birże”
- Latvian: “Birži (Lietuva)”
- Latvian: “Birži”
- Lithuanian: “Biržai”
- Lithuanian: “Biržų miestas”
- Macedonian: “Биржај”
- Moksha: “Биржай”
- Nauru: “Biržai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Biržai”
- Norwegian: “Biržai”
- Persian: “بیرزای”
- Persian: “بیرژای”
- Piemontese: “Biržai”
- Polish: “Biržai”
- Polish: “Birże”
- Portuguese: “Birzai”
- Portuguese: “Biržai”
- Russian: “Биржай”
- Russian: “Биржи (Литва)”
- Russian: “Биржи”
- Samogitian: “Biržā”
- Samogitian: “Biržai”
- Scots: “Biržai”
- Serbian: “Biržai”
- Serbian: “Биржај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Biržai”
- Spanish: “Biržai”
- Swahili: “Biržai”
- Swedish: “Bersen”
- Swedish: “Birsen”
- Swedish: “Biržai”
- Swedish: “Birze”
- Tatar: “Биржай”
- Turkish: “Biržai”
- Ukrainian: “Біржай”
- Upper Sorbian: “Biržai”
- Urdu: “برژائی”
- Volapük: “Biržai”
- Yiddish: “בירזש”
- “Biržā”
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