Elamur LocationsŠalčininkai
A settlement in Lithuania.
English name
Šalčininkai — Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.
Other forms in use:
- Soleczniki — Polish community and historical name explicitly used in English accounts of the Vilnius region.
- Šalčininkai Didieji — Expanded Lithuanian name used before the short name was adopted; not a separate modern settlement.
- Salcininkai — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.
- Salcininkai Didieji — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai Didieji for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.
French name
Šalčininkai — Same as in English; used as the French geographical reference heading.
Other forms in use:
- Soleczniki — Polish historical name explicitly quoted in the French locality reference.
- Salcininkai — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.
About
Šalčininkai is a town south of Vilnius near Lithuania's border with Belarus. It is an administrative centre in a district with a large Polish-speaking population.
Notes
Šalčininkai is the present Lithuanian civic main. Polish Soleczniki remains a community name, not solely an obsolete administrative label; the district has a large Polish-speaking population. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šalčininkai ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šalčininkai ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шальчинінкай ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Салечнікі.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q391011 · JSON
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