Święciany

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Święciany is a historic town in present-day Lithuania that was one of the principal urban centers of the former Wilno Voivodeship.

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Święciany canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic town
town
administrativeRole district capital
alternativeName Sventsiany
Sventsyany
Sventzion
Svintsyan
Švenčionys
country Lithuania
hasFeature multiethnic history
multilingual heritage
hasStatus municipal center
historicalLanguage Belarusian
Lithuanian
Polish
Yiddish
historicalRegion Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Vilnius Region
locatedIn Vilnius County
Vilna Governorate
surface form: historical Vilna Governorate

northeastern Lithuania
present-day Lithuania
Švenčionys District Municipality
locatedNear Belarus border
nearbyCity Vilnius
region Aukštaitija
religiousHeritage Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox

Jewish community
Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic
roleInWilnoVoivodeship principal urban center
timeZone Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Time
wasPartOf Second Polish Republic
surface form: Interwar Poland

Second Polish Republic
Wilno Voivodeship
Wilno Voivodeship
surface form: Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)

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Wilno Voivodeship hasMajorCity Święciany