Daržinėlės

Daržinėlės
Daržinėlės
Village
	Daržinėlės
	Coordinates: 53°56′28″N 24°16′39″E / 53.94111°N 24.27750°E
Country	Lithuania
County	Alytus County
Municipality	Varėna
Population (2021)
• Total	19
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Daržinėlės is a village in Varėna district municipality, in Alytus County, in southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the village has a population of 12 people.^[1]

Daržinėlės village is located c. 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Druskininkai, 19 kilometres (12 mi) from Marcinkonys, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from Kabeliai (the nearest settlement), 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the Belarusian border.

Demography

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1959	34	—
1979	27	−20.6%
1989	23	−14.8%

Year	Pop.	±%
2001	12	−47.8%
2011	22	+83.3%
2021	19	−13.6%

Source: 1959, 1979, 1989, 2001, 2011 2021

Etymology

The name Daržinėlės comes from a plural form of a word Lithuanian: daržinėlė ('a little shed'). The village is known as Polish: Świnny Las, Russian: Свинны-Ляс in earlier sources. It means 'a pig forest' in Slavic languages.^[2]

References

^ "2001 census" (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
^ Šimkus, Šarūnas (2023). Varėnos krašto vietovardžių etimologinis žodynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Liutauras Leščinskas. p. 16. ISBN 978-609-447-388-3.

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[1] "2001 census" (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2010.

[2] Šimkus, Šarūnas (2023). Varėnos krašto vietovardžių etimologinis žodynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Liutauras Leščinskas. p. 16. ISBN 978-609-447-388-3.

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