Antalieptė | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Antalieptė, Lithuania |
Coordinates: | 55.6611°N 25.8669°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Lithuania |
Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region |
Subdivision Name1: | Aukštaitija |
Subdivision Type2: | Town |
Subdivision Name2: | Utena County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Zarasai district municipality |
Established Date: | 1897 |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Population Total: | 278 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Website: | http://www.antaliepte.lt |
Antalieptė (in Lithuanian pronounced as /anˈtaːlʲɛpteː/) (Polish: Antolepty) is a small town in Zarasai district municipality, near the Duseta–Daugailiai road and the right bank of the Šventoji riverhead. The town is also 4 km from the village of Zabičiūnai.
Antalieptė has a secondary school and post office (postode: LT-32013). In Šventoji valley there is the Antalieptė Cross Discovery church, also there was Antalieptė Discalced Carmelites monastery. Antalieptė also has House of Culture, library (from 1941) and a water mill (built 1855 from broken and round rocks, red bricks and lime; mill was working until 1966).
According to the 1897 census, 85.5% of the population of the town was Jewish. The Jews immigrated before World War II or were murdered during the Holocaust in Nazi occupied Lithuania by both Germans and Lithuanians.[1] [2]