Kuršėnai, Lithuania

Lithuania

Kuršėnai, Lithuania links through 33 connections to 8423 other places across 10 topics, with history, military and government themes leading. Many ties concern World War II, including a ghetto set up by Nazi authorities that housed Jews in the two synagogues. Earlier threads reach back to 1564, when Sigismund II Augustus gave the town to the Despot-Zenavičiai family, and to the ancient Samogitian tribe. It shares connections with Lithuania, Vilnius and Russia, and its pottery, the Venta river and the Lithuanian language add smaller threads.