Pandėlys
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|name = Pandėlys
| image_skyline = Pandel (Large).jpg
| image_caption = The church of Pandėlys
|nickname =
|settlement_type = City
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{LTU}}
|subdivision_type1 = Ethnographic region
|subdivision_name1 = Aukštaitija
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = 20px Panevėžys County
|subdivision_type3 = Municipality
|subdivision_name3 = Rokiškis district municipality
|subdivision_type4 = Eldership
|subdivision_name4 = Pandėlys eldership
|subdivision_type6 = Capital of
|subdivision_name6 = Pandelys eldership
|established_date = 1591
|established_title = First mentioned
|established_date2 = 1956
|established_title2= Granted city rights
|population_total = 985
|population_as_of = 2005
|timezone=EET
|utc_offset=+2
|timezone_DST=EEST
|utc_offset_DST=+3
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Pandėlys ({{pronunciation|Pandelys.ogg}}) is a city in northern Lithuania. It is located some {{convert|26|km|mi|abbr=on}} west from Rokiškis, on the road to Biržai. Apaščia River originates near the town and flows through it.
History
The origins of the name are associated with trade. One explanation goes that the name was derived from a word meaning "warehouse." Merchants from Vilnius and Riga would meet and exchange the goods somewhere in the area. Lithuanians called their storage places podėlis and Latvians – pondėlis. The other explanation claims that the name comes from panedėlis – Monday, the day of the week when the market was open.
The town is first mentioned in 1591. The manor belonged to the Rajecki family, who sold it to the Kościałkowskis in 1767. The new owners, Stumbrai, demolished the manor. Only a park is left, planted according to Italian traditions. Ignacy Kościałkowski built a brick church in 1801. Antanas Strazdas, a famous poet, worked for short period in the church. The city had an important Chasidic Jewish community before their murder in 1941;{{Cite web|url=http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Pandelys/|title=Pandelys}} before the First World War, the population numbered approximately 150 Jewish families and 50-60 Christian families.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/rokiskis/rok331.html|title=Ponedel}} Today, an important Jewish cemetery is still visible.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/lithuania/pandelys.html |title=PANDELYS: Kovno | lithuania - International Jewish Cemetery Project |access-date=2016-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604053446/http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/lithuania/pandelys.html |archive-date=2016-06-04 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://yoffeyoffe.blogspot.fr/2010/09/ponendel-jewish-history.html|title=Yoffe: Ponendel - Jewish History}}
References
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- {{cite book |last=Semaška |first=Algimantas |title=Kelionių vadovas po Lietuvą: 1000 lankytinų vietovių norintiems geriau pažinti gimtąjį kraštą |edition=4th |year=2006 |publisher=Algimantas |location=Vilnius |isbn=9986-509-90-4 |page=406|language=lt}}
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Category:Cities in Panevėžys County
Category:Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd
Category:Holocaust locations in Lithuania
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