The Ukmergė district municipality is a municipality in Vilnius County

Vilnius County

Vilnius County is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Vilnius County remains as the territorial and statistical unit.-History:Until the Partitions of...

, Lithuania

Lithuania

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. The capital of the municipality is Ukmergė

Ukmerge

-Early history:Ukmergė was first mentioned as a settlement in 1333. It was essentially a wooden fortress that stood on a hill, near the confluence of the Vilkmergė River and the Šventoji River. Ukmergė was attacked by the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Order in 1333, 1365, 1378, 1386, and even...

, the largest settlement and only city in the municipality. The entire municipality belongs to Aukštaitija

Aukštaitija

Aukštaitija is the name of one of five ethnographic regions of Lithuania. The name comes from the relatively high elevation of the region, particularly the eastern parts.-Geography:...

 ethnographic region

Regions of Lithuania

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.

Settlements

There are 10 town

Town

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s in Ukmergė municipality: Deltuva

Deltuva

Deltuva is a small town in Ukmergė district, Vilnius County, Lithuania. It is located 6 km north-west of Ukmergė, near the road to Kėdainiai...

, Lyduokiai, Pabaiskas

Pabaiskas

Pabaiskas is a small town in Ukmergė district of Vilnius County, Lithuania, south-west of Ukmergė, with 249 inhabitants. The Battle of Pabaiskas took place here in 1435, when Sigismund Kestutaitis defeated Švitrigaila and his Livonian Order allies...

, Siesikai, Šešuoliai, Taujėnai, Vepriai

Vepriai

Vepriai is the largest town in Ukmergė district, Lithuania, situated south-west of Ukmergė with population of about 1,000 . The capital of Vepriai elderate.-History:Vepriai was founded on a hill near Vepriai Lake and south of Šventoji River...

, Vidiškiai, Želva

Želva

Želva is a town in Ukmergė district municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the town has a population of 516 people. The town has a Catholic church and a synagogue. Želva is the birthplace of Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Aaron Klug....

 and Žemaitkiemis. Ukmergė municipality shares the second place in Lithuania (with Radviliškis district municipality

Radviliškis district municipality

Radviliškis district municipality is one of the seven municipalities of Šiauliai County in Lithuania. Radviliškis town has been its center since 1950.Radviliškis district has 13 subdivisions or elderships .-Industry:...

) according to the number of towns. There are 612 village

Village

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s in the municipality.

Vepriai

Vepriai

Vepriai is the largest town in Ukmergė district, Lithuania, situated south-west of Ukmergė with population of about 1,000 . The capital of Vepriai elderate.-History:Vepriai was founded on a hill near Vepriai Lake and south of Šventoji River...

 is the most populous town in the municipality and is a local tourism (notably rural tourism

Rural tourism

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) center. Siesikai is best known for the 16th century Renaissance

Renaissance architecture

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 Siesikai (Daumantai) Castle

Siesikai Castle

Siesikai Castle is the residential castle near Siesikai, Ukmergė district, Lithuania.The castle on the Siesikai Lake was built by Gabrielius Daumantas-Siesickis in the 16th century in the Renaissance style. His heirs were known as Daumantai, also called Siesicki, had given their family name to the...

 near Siesikai Lake. Deltuva has been the centre of the important Deltuva Land at the emergence of the centralised Lithuanian State

Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th /13th century until 1569 and then as a constituent part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791 when Constitution of May 3, 1791 abolished it in favor of unitary state. It was founded by the Lithuanians, one of the polytheistic...

. The ruins

Ruins

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 of one of the first Calvinist churches in Lithuania (17th century, Renaissance style

Renaissance architecture

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) are near Deltuva. Pabaiskas was established near the location where the notorious Battle of Pabaiskas

Battle of Pabaiskas

The Battle of Pabaiskas took place on September 1, 1435 near Ukmergė , by the Šventoji River in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...

 between the armies led by Žygimantas Kęstutaitis and Švitrigaila

Švitrigaila

Švitrigaila Švitrigaila Švitrigaila (ca 1370 – 10 February 1452; was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1430 to 1432. He spent most of his life in largely unsuccessful dynastic struggles against his cousins Vytautas and Sigismund Kęstutaitis.-Struggle against Vytautas:...

 has taken place on 1 September 1435.

The first president of the independent Lithuanian state Antanas Smetona

Antanas Smetona

Antanas Smetona was one of the most important Lithuanian political figures between World War I and World War II. He served as the first President of Lithuania from April 4, 1919 to June 19, 1920. He again served as the last President of the country from December 19, 1926 to June 15, 1940, before...

 was born in Užulėnis, now Ukmergė District.

Geography

The eastern part of the municipality belongs to Aukštaitijan Highlands

Highland (geography)

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 and the north-western part is in Middle Lithuanian Lowland

Lowland

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s.

Šventoji River

Šventoji River

The Šventoji River is the longest river that flows entirely within Lithuania and the largest tributary of the Neris River. It originates from the Lake Samanis in the Gražutė Regional Park and flows into Neris near Jonava. The longest tributary of the Šventoji is the Širvinta River.The Šventoji...

 is the largest river in the municipality and Širvinta River

Širvinta River

The Širvinta is a river in Lithuania. Stretching for 129 km, it is the longest tributary of the Šventoji River. Its source is in the hinterlands of the Širvintos district. After it passes through the city of Širvintos, where a low head dam has been built, it continues through the Ukmergė district,...

 is the second. The other rivers are Siesartis, Mūša and Armona. Lake Lėnas is the largest lake (2.65 km²) and Lake Žirnajai is the deepest (average of 9.8 meters).

Woodland

Woodland

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s cover about 29 percents of the district, swamp

Swamp

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s occupy 2.3 percent and 54.5 percent is an arable land

Arable land

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See also

• List of municipalities in Lithuania
• Subdivisions of Lithuania
• Counties of Lithuania
  Counties of Lithuania
  The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties , all named after their capitals. The counties are divided into 60 municipalities : 9 city municipalities, 43 district municipalities and 8 municipalities...