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# Anykščiai

A settlement in Lithuania.

## English name

**Anykščiai** — Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.

Other forms in use:

- **Onikszty** — Polish historical name used in English Lithuanian history.
- **Onikshty** — Russian-based and Jewish-community form used in historical references.
- **Aniksht** — Yiddish-derived name in English Jewish historical and genealogical references.
- **Anikshty** — Belarusian-based name explicitly quoted in English references.
- **Onikschten** — German historical name quoted in English geographical and historical references.
- **Weimar of Lithuania** — English descriptive literary nickname explicitly recorded in references; not an official place name.
- **Anyksciai** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Anykščiai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

## French name

**Anykščiai** — Same form as in English; used in French geographical references.

Other forms in use:

- **Anyksčiai** — Partly diacritic-stripped spelling indexed in French naming data; not the correct fully accented Lithuanian form.
- **Anyksciai** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing form of Anykščiai for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

## About

Anykščiai is a town on the Šventoji River in northeastern Lithuania. It is associated with Lithuanian writers and the pine forest celebrated in Antanas Baranauskas's poetry.

## Notes

Reference pages checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anykščiai ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anykščiai.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q505416](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505416) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/lithuania/anyksciai/?format=json)


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