Šukioniai | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Šukioniai |
Coordinates: | 55.9417°N 23.7167°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Šiauliai County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Pakruojis District Municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Eldership |
Subdivision Name4: | Lygumai Eldership |
Established Date: | 1372 |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Population Total: | 357 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Šukioniai is a village in the southwest of Pakruojis District Municipality, Lithuania. It is located near Vėzgė stream about southwest of Pakruojis.
A hill fort at the location was destroyed by an attack of the Livonian Order in August 1372.[1]
Jonas Noreika, an anti-Soviet partisan accused of collaborating in the Holocaust, was born in the village in 1910. The village school is named after Noreika.[2] [3] [4]