Didžiosios Kabiškės | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 54°52′20″N 25°27′10″E / 54.87222°N 25.45278°E | |
Country | Lithuania |
Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
County | Vilnius County |
Municipality | Vilnius district municipality |
Eldership | Nemenčinė eldership |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 716 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Didžiosios Kabiškės (literally: Great Kabiškės) is a village in Vilnius district municipality, Lithuania. It is located about 24 km (15 mi) northeast of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. The nearest city is Nemenčinė. A smaller village, known as Mažosios Kabiškės (literally: Little Kabiškės), is located nearby. Didžiosios Kabiškės has a bi-lingual Lithuanian and Polish kindergarten and a primary school (reorganized into one institution in May 2009), [1] a postal office, and a library.
The village was chosen as the center for Zhdanov's kolkhoz (collective farm). [2] It was built between 1975 and 1980 by "Neris", one of the biggest farming complexes in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. The complex exchanged stock-raising technologies with Frankfurt am Main, Germany. These developments spurred village's growth: it had 51 residents in 1959, 84 in 1970, 360 in 1979, 488 in 1985. [2] In 1990 Lithuania declared independence and state's support for the kolkhoz discontinued. According to the census in 2011, it had 716 residents. [3]