Bartkuškis Manor

The Draučiai shooting was a shooting spree that occurred in Draučiai, a small village in the Širvintos District Municipality, Lithuania on February 15, 1998, when 58-year-old Leonardas Zavistonovičius, a Polish local, killed nine Lithuanian people and wounded another, before being beaten to death. Due to the ethnicities of the perpetrator and the victims, it was speculated that the crime was politically motivated, but the investigation proved this to be untrue: Zavistonovičius had severe mental illness.

Jauniūnai natural gas compression station is a gas compressor station in Lithuania, located in Jauniūnai, Širvintos District Municipality. Capacity at the station is 34.5 MW. The station will be the end point of the planned Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania.

Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania (GIPL) is a gas pipeline between Poland and Lithuania. The pipeline was commissioned and started commercial operation on 1 May 2022. The length of the pipeline is 508 km (316 mi) and the natural gas can flow both directions. The pipeline will run from Jauniūnai natural gas compression station (GCS) in eastern Lithuania to the Hołowczyce GCS station in eastern Poland. The project was implemented by gas transmission system operators AB Amber Grid (Lithuania) and Gaz-System SA (Poland). The completion of GIPL integrated Lithuania, together with the other two Baltic states and Finland, into the European Union (EU) gas transmission system.

Jauniūnai is a village in the Širvintos District Municipality, Lithuania. It is near the A2 highway and European route E272. It had 185 residents at the time of the 2001 census.Jauniūnai has a natural gas compression station, which is why the village was selected as the terminus of the planned Lithuania–Poland pipeline.

The Duchy of Lithuania (Latin: Ducatus Lithuaniae; Lithuanian: Lietuvos kunigaikštystė) was a state-territorial formation of ethnic Lithuanians that existed from the 13th century to 1413. For most of its existence, it was a constituent part and a nucleus of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Other alternative names of the territorial formation, used in different periods, were Aukštaitija or Land of Lithuania (13th century), Duchy of Vilnius (14th – early 15th centuries), Lithuania proper, or simply Lithuania (in a narrow sense).

Širvintos District Municipality (Lithuanian: Širvintų rajono savivaldybė) is a municipality in Lithuania, it is in territory of Vilnius County and its capital is Širvintos.

Airėnai II is a village located in the Vilnius District Municipality. It is part of the Neris Regional Park. According to the census of 2011, the village has a population of 110, a decrease from 257 in 1959. Airėnai I village is located nearby.

Musninkai is a town in Širvintos district municipality, Vilnius County, east Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, the town has a population of 415 people. The town has a Catholic church. Its alternate names include Muśniki (Polish), Musnikai, Musninkay, and Musnik (Yiddish).

Širvintos (, German: Schirwindt) is a town in Vilnius County in the eastern part of Lithuania. It is the administrative center of the Širvintos district municipality.The word Širvintos is the plural form of the name of the Širvinta River, which flows through the town. Its alternate names include Shirvintay, Shirvintos, Širvintai, Širvintar, and Szyrwinty (Polish).

The Kernavė hillforts (Lithuanian: Kernavės piliakalniai, Kernavė hillforts) are five hillforts at the southern edge of Kernavė (Širvintos District, Aukštaitija, Lithuania) in the Pajauta Valley on the right side of the Neris valley. Kernavė is the oldest known (but not the first) capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Since 1989 the site is part of the Kernavė State Cultural Reserve, added to the Unesco World Heritage List in 2004. It includes the following hillforts: Lizdeika Hillfort Mindaugas Throne Hillfort Altar Hillfort Castle hill Hillfort Kriveikiškis Hillfort, located some 0.4 km away from the close group of the four other hillforts, on the right bank of the Kernavėlė Stream.

Kernavė was a medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and today is a tourist attraction and an archeological site (population 238, 2021). It is located in the Širvintos district municipality located in southeast Lithuania. A Lithuanian state cultural reserve was established in Kernavė in 1989. In 2004 Kernavė Archaeological Site was included into UNESCO world heritage list.

Airėnai I is a village located in the Vilnius District Municipality. It is part of the Neris Regional Park. According to the census of 2011, the village has a population of 83, a decrease from 112 in 1984. Airėnai II village is located nearby.