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Alytus Arena

sports venue

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ450541 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Alytus Arena is a universal indoor arena in Alytus, Lithuania. It was opened in 1977. Its reconstruction began in 2009 and was completed by the end of 2010. The arena was officially opened on 12 February 2011. The arena hosted the Group C games of EuroBasket 2011 from 31 August 2011 to 5 September 2011.

League attendances

This is a list of league games attendances of BC Dzūkija at Alytus Arena.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alytus Arena” is sports venue. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alytus, Arena and sports, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2009, 2010, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-02-12. For this dossier, Alytus, Arena and sports is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “sports venue” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q450541. Authority coordinates are 54.404, 24.022. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alytus Arena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.