Rykantai
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Rykantai is located in Lithuania
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Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
County | Vilnius County |
Municipality | Trakai district municipality |
Eldership | Lentvaris elderate |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 412 |
Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
• Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Rykantai is a village in Trakai district municipality, Lithuania, 7 kilometres north-west of Lentvaris. The village has a post office, a railway station and a church, Trinity Church. The Neris River flows north of the village.
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Rykantai Trinity church
Rykantai is known as one of the first reformats settlement in Lithuania. Rykantai is mentioned in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace as the place where General Balashov delivers a letter from Tsar Alexander to Napoleon.
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