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Birzai

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Biržai 

a city; center of Biržai Raion, Lithuanian SSR. Located near Lake Sirven on the Apaščia River. Terminal station of a railroad branch from Siauliai (67 km). Population, 10,100 (1968). There are a flax-weaving factory, a flax-processing plant, a plant for reinforced-concrete structures, a brewery, a cannery, and a butter plant. The city also has a museum of local lore. Birzai has been a city since 1589; the ruins of an ancient castle have been preserved. Two geological preserves with karst depressions and downwarps and the Likenai balneological health resort are located nearby.



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Savivaldybiu istatyma apskrities miesto teises gavo desimt miestu (Alytus, Birzai, Kaunas, Kedainiai, Marijampole, Panevezys, Siauliai, Telsiai, Ukmerge, Vilkaviskis).
On March 27, the daily Lietuvos Rytas published an interview with Petras Jukonis, who is now a judo coach in the northern Lithuanian town of Birzai.
Lapinskas (1968), however, established in the southern East Baltic the Birzai Formation to avoid the usage of the term "Jonstorp" for the predominantly red-coloured part of the Pirgu Stage between the Fjacka and Paroveja formations (Zarenai section; Fig.
 
 
 
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