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    Rykantai

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    Rykantai
    Village
    Rykantai is located in Lithuania
    Rykantai
    Rykantai
    Location of Rykantai
    Coordinates: 54°43′N 24°59′E / 54.717°N 24.983°E / 54.717; 24.983
    Country Lithuania
    Ethnographic regionAukštaitija
    CountyVilnius County
    MunicipalityTrakai district municipality
    EldershipLentvaris elderate
    Population
     (2011)
     • Total281
    Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
     • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

    Rykantai is a village in Trakai district municipality, Lithuania, 7 kilometres north-west of Lentvaris. The village has a post office, a railway station and a church, Trinity Church. The Neris River flows north of the village. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, it has 281 inhabitants.[1]

    Rykantai Trinity church

    Rykantai is known as one of the first reformats settlement in Lithuania. Rykantai is mentioned in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace as the place where General Balashov delivers a letter from Tsar Alexander to Napoleon.

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 17, 2017.

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