Vistytis is a town in southern Lithuania on Lake Vistytis, Marijampole district. It is situated close to the Russian border (Kaliningrad oblast). Today the town has got 1,000 inhabitants. During the shoah it lost most of its inhabitants.
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Marijampol? (approximate English transcription [m?.r?.?ja?m.po.l?], simplified Lithuanian transcription [marij?mpol?]) is an industrial town and capital of Marijampol? County in the south of Lithuania, close to the borders to Poland and to Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) and to Lake Vistytis. Marijampol? has 48,800 inhabitants (2003). It is the Lithuanian center of the Sudovia region.
From 1956 to 1989 the town was officially named Kapsukas, after Vincas Kapsukas, founder of the Lithuanian Communist Party.
Var?na (Polish: Orany) is a town in Dzukija in Lithuania. It was founded in 1862 by the railway Warsaw - Sankt Peterburg. At that time it was a small settlement, which developed little by little and it became center of district in 1950. Town was rapidly growing and a lot of villagers moved into Varena. Presently there are 12 thousand people living there. Var?na district is the largest and the most covered with forests in Lithuania.
Šilute (Polish: Szy?okarczma, German: Heydekrug) is a city in Klaip?da County in Lithuania, capital of Šilute district municipality. Historically in Klaip?da region and part of Lithuania Minor, in the interwar capital of Šilut? County.
Telšiai (approximate English transcription [t?l(?).??e?], simplified Lithuanian transcription [tel'?ia?]; Polish Telsze) is a town in Lithuania with about 35,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of Telsiai County.
The town is the birthplace of Rolandas Paksas, the former president of Lithuania and Gabriel Narutowicz, the first President of Poland.
Ukmerge (Polish Wi?komierz) is a town in Vilnius County, Lithuania, situated north-west of Vilnius.
