Tituvenai

Tituvenai
	City
Tituvenai
	lit. Tytuvėnai
Flag	Emblem
A country	Lithuania
County	Šiauliai
Area	Kelmesky
Warden (in Lithuania) \| Warden	Romas Cherkauskas
History and Geography
First mention	XV century
Former names	Tsitovany
City with	1956
Height above sea level	~ 130 m
Climate type	moderately continental
Timezone	UTC + 2 , in summer UTC + 3
Population
Population	2 614 people ( 2010 )
Digital identifiers
Telephone code	(+370) 427
Postcode	LT-86061

Tituvenai ^[1] ( lit. Tytuvėnai ; until 1917 the official name of Tsitovany ) is a city in the Šiauliai county of Lithuania , 17 km east of Kelme .

The settlement has been known since the 15th century . Former Bernardine monastery with the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the XVII - XVIII centuries . The Orthodox Church of Our Lady of Kazan ( 1875 ), rector of which in 1988-1990 was Hieromonk Hilarion Alfeev ^[2] .

Railroad station. Gymnasium. Postal office. Peat extraction .

Content

Population

Tituvenaya population dynamics
Year	1970	1979	1989	2001	2005	2010
inhabitants	3,213	3 111	3 058	2 851	2,775	2 614

Famous Natives and Residents

Volovich, Andrei Ivanovich (c. 1570-1614) - founder of the Bernardine monastery in Tituvenai.

Gallery

Church of the Kazan Mother of God
Self-government building
Gymnasium in Tituvenai
Catholic church of St. Mary
Church decoration
Church decoration
Monastery
Monastery courtyard gallery
Library

Notes

↑ Geographic Encyclopedic Dictionary: Geographic Names / Ed. A.F. Treshnikov . - 2nd ed., Ext. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1989. - S. 479. - 210 000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-057-6 .
↑ Hilarion, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (Grigory V. Alfeev) (neopr.) . Russian Orthodox Church. The official website of the Moscow Patriarchate . Patriarchia.ru. Date of treatment December 28, 2016.

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[1] Geographic Encyclopedic Dictionary: Geographic Names / Ed. A.F. Treshnikov . - 2nd ed., Ext. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1989. - S. 479. - 210 000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-057-6 .

[2] Hilarion, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (Grigory V. Alfeev) (neopr.) . Russian Orthodox Church. The official website of the Moscow Patriarchate . Patriarchia.ru. Date of treatment December 28, 2016.