Linkmenys

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|subdivision_name1= Aukštaitija

|subdivision_type2= County

|subdivision_name2= Utena County

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|subdivision_name3= Ignalina District Municipality

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|established_title= First mentioned

|population_total = 134

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Linkmenys ({{langx|pl|Łyngmiany}}) is a village located in Ignalina District Municipality in Utena County, in eastern Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 134 inhabitants.

History

File:Linkmenys 1935.jpg

In Hermann von Wartberge's Chronicon Livoniale it is referred to as Linkmenys Castle, which probably stood on {{Interlanguage link multi|Ginučiai Hillfort|lt|3=Ginučių piliakalnis|lt=Ginučiai Hillfort}}. Around 1500, the local church has been erected. Sigismund II Augustus had a manor and a town which belonged to the manor in Linkmenys.

In 1922, 2 years after Polish–Lithuanian War, the Polish soldiers in Lithuanian school of Linkmenys butted the Vytis as "foreign state sign".{{cite web|url=http://www.veidas.lt/vilniaus-krasto-okupacija-smurtas-teise-ir-propaganda|publisher=veidas.lt|title=Occupation of Vilnius Region: Violence, Right and Propaganda|accessdate=2017-07-24}}

During the interwar period, the village was split by the Polish-Lithuanian demarcation line, however the bigger part of the village was part of Poland. Administratively, it was located in Święciany County in Wilno Voivodeship.

= World War II =

During World War II, it was first invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and then by Nazi Germany until 1944. In mid-July 1941, 70 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian collaborators.{{cite web|url=http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/191/|publisher=holocaustatlas.lt|title=Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania|accessdate=2017-07-15}} A memorial stone is erected at the site of the massacre.

Notable people

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