Semeliškės

{{Infobox settlement

| official_name = Semeliškės

| native_name =

| settlement_type = Town

| image_skyline = Semeliskes cerkve.JPG

| image_flag = Semeliškių vėliava.svg

| image_shield = Semeliškių herbas.svg

| image_map =

| pushpin_map = Lithuania

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Semeliškės in Lithuania

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Lithuania}}

| subdivision_type1 = County

| subdivision_name1 = 20px Vilnius County

| subdivision_type2 = Municipality

| subdivision_name2 = Elektrėnai municipality

| subdivision_type3 = Eldership

| subdivision_name3 = Semeliškės eldership

| population_footnotes =

| population_total = 516

| population_as_of = 2021

| population_note =

| timezone = EET

| utc_offset = +2

| timezone_DST = EEST

| utc_offset_DST = +3

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Semeliškės is a town in Elektrėnai municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, the town has a population of 580 people.{{cite web|url=http://statistics.bookdesign.lt/table_125_07.htm?lang=en|title=2011 census|publisher=Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania)|accessdate=August 13, 2017}} The town has a church of Catholics and Orthodox church of St. Nicolas.

Its alternate names include Sameliškės, Semelishkes, Semelishkis, Semeliškių, Sumelishki, Sumilishki, Siemieliszki, and Sumiliszk.United States Board of Geographic Names - Semeliškės. Accessed January 23, 2014.

History

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On October 6, 1941, 962 Jews of the town were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen of local policemen and Lithuanian collaborators.{{Cite web|url=http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/127/|title = Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania}}

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