Kelmė, Šiauliai County, Lithuania
🇱🇹 Kelmė is a city in north-western Lithuania, a historical region of Samogitia. It is the administrative centre of the Kelmė district municipality.
Name Kelmė's name is likelty derived from the Lithuanian word kelmynės, literally: the stubby place, because of the forests that were there at the time of its founding.
History Kelmė was first mentioned in 1416, the year that Kelmė's first church was built.
Prior to World War II, Kelmė (Yiddish: Kelm) was home to a famous Rabbinical College, the Kelm Talmud Torah. According to an 1897 census, 2,710 of Kelme's 3,914 inhabitants were members of the town's Jewish population, the vast majority of whom were merchants and traders and lived in the town. Most of the Jews in Kelmė rural district were murdered during a mass execution on 29 July 1941. On August 22 a second mass execution occurred. On 2 October 1941, some Kelmė and Vaiguva Jews were murdered in Žagarė. The executions were committed by the Germans soldiers, auxiliary police and Lithuanian collaborators. In total, the number of victims is 1,250-1,300 people.
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Kelmė has a population of over 8,206 people. Kelmė also forms the centre of the wider Kelmė District which has a population of over 40,900 people. It is also a part of the larger Šiauliai County. Kelmė is situated near Šiauliai.
Twin Towns - Sister Cities Kelmė has links with:
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🇷🇺 Novo-Peredelkino 55.633
🇩🇰 Høje-Taastrup 55.648
🇩🇰 Albertslund 55.65
🇷🇺 Obruchevsky 55.65
🇷🇺 Tyoply Stan 55.617
🏴 Kilmarnock 55.609
🇷🇺 Gus-Khrustalny 55.607
🏴 Newtown St Boswells 55.585
🇬🇷 Thessaloniki 22.954
🇧🇬 Blagoevgrad 23.095
Locations Near: Kelmė 22.9338,55.6302
🇱🇹 Šiauliai 23.316,55.933 d: 41.3
🇱🇹 Radviliškis 23.55,55.8 d: 43
🇱🇹 Tauragė 22.289,55.25 d: 58.7
🇱🇹 Marijampolė 23.35,54.533 d: 124.8
🇱🇹 Kaunas 23.919,54.903 d: 102.1
🇱🇻 Jelgava 23.724,56.652 d: 123.7
🇱🇹 Panevėžys 24.37,55.737 d: 90.8
🇵🇱 Suwałki 22.933,54.101 d: 170
Antipodal to: Kelmė -157.066,-55.63
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15732
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15894
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15270.3
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15198.5
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11633.9
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11525.1
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11508.8
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 11506.1