Dūkštas | |
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City | |
 Church of Dūkštas | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Dūkštas Location of Dūkštas | |
| Coordinates: 55°31′20″N 26°19′10″E / 55.52222°N 26.31944°E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
| County |  Utena County |
| Municipality | Ignalina district municipality |
| Eldership | Dūkštas eldership |
| Capital of | Dūkštas eldership |
| First mentioned | 1862 |
| Granted city rights | 1956 |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 729 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Dūkštas (ⓘ; Polish: Dukszty) is a city in eastern Lithuania, 26 km (16 mi) north from Ignalina, on the bank of Lake Dūkštas.[1]
Notable people
- Charles Rappoport (1865–1941), militant communist politician, journalist and writer, who lived most of his life in a France
- Jerzy Turonek (1929 – 2019) was a Polish-Belarusian historian.[2]
References
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