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Kintai
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Kintai
Total population
616
Demographic figures from Statistics Lithuania. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Kintai is a small town in Klaipėda County, in Lithuania. It is the center of the Eldership (Seniūnija) Kintai and is part of the Šilutė District Municipality. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 616 people.
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History
The towns name originates from the words Kintas, Kìnta. Kintai began to appear in the 16th century when it was located within the Polish-Lithuanian Union, soon to be Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The town was a part of Duchy of Prussia, which was fief of Poland. The settlement started to grow at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1705, the was built. In 1962, the church of Kintai was included in the Registry of Cultural Property of Lithuania. The church suffered severely during the Soviet occupation. It was not protected and unattended by local authorities for several years, and in 1948, it was repurposed as a grain warehouse. 1987-1982 some restoration work was done, adjusted to host concerts and exhibitions. In 1990 the church was given to the Catholic community. Next to the church the parish primary school of Kintai was founded, where 1888-1892 Vydūnas worked as a teacher. From the 18th century, it was part of the Kingdom of Prussia, and from 1871 it was also part of Germany, within which it was administratively part of the province of East Prussia, and was officially referred to by its Germanized name Kinten. In 1820, a state-owned forestry was founded, and in 1850, a postal office was established. Between the 18th and 19th centuries, there was a big fish and cattle market, where even fishers from the Curonian Spit went to, to sell their goods. In the late 19th century, the village had an almost exclusively Lithuanian population of 494. In the second half of the 19th century books and periodicals were published in Lithuanian. In Kintai, Lithuanian activity started to occur actively after the First World War. Near the end of 1922, the eldest minor Prussian-Lithuanian rescue committee was founded and in 1923, the "Rūta" Society; together they had 20…
Geography
Kintai is located in western Lithuania, in the historic region of Lithuania Minor, at the Curonian Lagoon. There are three roads to Kintai, coming from Šilutė, and Priekulė. To the north of Kintai is the 800 ha wide . To the southeast is the Nemunas Delta Regional Park. Europe's second highest Giant Cedar, with a height of , is located in Kintai.
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