Keturiasdešimt Totorių: Difference between revisions
Too much names for a village of just few hundred inhabitants. It's not a huge city for 3, 4, 5 variants of a name. Tatar name is just to show respect for the specific of the village (it was established as a Tatar village), but Polish or even Belarussian variants are really irrelevant as it bears no importance for Poles or Belarussians. |
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==Name meaning== |
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According to a legend, which explains the name of this village, [[Vytautas]] granted Tatars the privilege of keeping their religion and customs, including the customary polygamy. One Tatar man had four wives and every wife gave birth to ten sons, thus the name of the village – "Forty Tatars". |
According to a legend, which explains the name of this village, [[Vytautas]] granted Tatars the privilege of keeping their religion and customs, including the customary polygamy. One Tatar man had four wives and every wife gave birth to ten sons, thus the name of the village – "Forty Tatars".<ref>[http://www.vilnijosvartai.lt/events/naujas-istorinis-leidinys-keturiasdesimt-totoriu-kaimas-tarp-istorijos-ir-dabarties/ Naujas istorinis leidinys „Keturiasdešimt Totorių kaimas tarp istorijos ir dabarties“]</ref> |
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==References== |
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Revision as of 13:28, 22 April 2021
Keturiasdešimt Totorių | |
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Village | |
 Tatar Mosque and Tatar street sign in Keturiasdešimt Totorių village | |
  Keturiasdešimt Totorių Location of Keturiasdešimt Totorių | |
| Coordinates: 54°33′40″N 25°10′01″E / 54.56111°N 25.16694°E | |
| Land |  Litauen |
| County |  Vilnius County |
| Municipality | Vilnius District Municipality |
| Eldership | Pagiriai eldership |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 451 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Keturiasdešimt Totorių (literally: Forty Tatars, Tatar: Кырык Татар, Kyryk Tatar) is a village in Vilnius District Municipality, Pagiriai Eldership, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, it had population of 451.[1] There is a wooden mosque, built in 1815, three historic Tatar cemeteries and Tatar community center in the village.
History
Keturiasdešimt Totorių is one of the oldest Lithuanian Tatars settlements in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After a successful military campaign to Crimean Peninsula in 1397, Vytautas brought the first Tatar prisoners of war to Trakai and various places in the Duchy of Trakai, including localities near Vokė river just south of Vilnius. The first mosque in this village was mentioned for the first time in 1558. It was burnt down during Napoleonic wars. There were 42 Tatar families in the village in 1630. Today there are around 130 Tatars living in this village. The rest of the population are Lithuanians, Poles, Russians and others.
In 2019, a book The Village of Forty Tatars – Between History and the Present was published.[2]
Name meaning
According to a legend, which explains the name of this village, Vytautas granted Tatars the privilege of keeping their religion and customs, including the customary polygamy. One Tatar man had four wives and every wife gave birth to ten sons, thus the name of the village – "Forty Tatars".[3]
References
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 14, 2017.
- ^ Naujas istorinis leidinys „Keturiasdešimt Totorių kaimas tarp istorijos ir dabarties“
- ^ Naujas istorinis leidinys „Keturiasdešimt Totorių kaimas tarp istorijos ir dabarties“
