| Lentvaris | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Lentvaris |
| Coordinates: | 54.65°N 25.0667°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Dzūkija |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Vilnius County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Trakai district municipality |
| Subdivision Type4: | Eldership |
| Subdivision Name4: | Lentvaris eldership |
| Subdivision Type6: | Capital of |
| Subdivision Name6: | Lentvaris eldership |
| Established Date: | 17th century |
| Established Title: | First mentioned |
| Established Date2: | 1946 |
| Established Title2: | Granted city rights |
| Population Total: | 9,618 |
| Population As Of: | 2022 |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Lentvaris (; Polish: Landwarów) is a city in eastern Lithuania, 9 km east of Trakai. It is a transportation hub, as several road and rail routes cross here. Lake Lentvaris is nearby.
The town is situated in ethnographically Baltic Lithuanian territory and was historically a territory of Lithuania Proper situated close to a capital city Vilnius. In the 19th century the Polonization of Eastern Lithuania started thus the city started to become multilingual. In the 18th Century, the city of Lentvaris, was within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was populated by Poles, Lithuanians and Jews and belonged to the estate of the Polish-Lithuanian House of Sapieha. Following the partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the town became part of the Russian Empire. In 1850 the town was owned by Izdebski and then sold on to another Polish-Lithuanian magnate clan, the Tiškevičiai family.[1] In 1885 they had a Tudor-style palace built with a park, designed by Édouard André.[2] In 1869 an industrial nail factory was established in the city.
After the Żeligowski%27s Mutiny in 1920, Lentvaris was annexed by Poland and was part of Poland in the Wilno–Troki District of the Wilno Voivodeship.[3] [4]
In September 1939, Nazi Germany attacked Poland simultaneously with the Soviet Union. The town was taken over by the Soviets on September 19, 1939. Local Polish soldiers, who had fought in the September Campaign, were attacked and interned by Lithuanians in the city of Kretinga.[5] Between 1942 and 1943, a Jewish partisan unit headed by Abba Kovner operated in the area. They blew up a train bound from Warsaw to Vilnius, near Lentvaris station, on the stretch between Vilnius and Grodno. Twenty one carriages carrying German troops and supplies were derailed.[6]
According to the 2021 census, the city population was 9,713 people, of which:[7]