Marijampolė County
county of Lithuania
Marijampolė County (Lithuanian: Marijampolės apskritis) is one of the ten counties in Lithuania. It is in the southwest of the country and roughly corresponds to the historical region of Sudovia. Its capital and the largest town is Marijampolė. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Marijampolė County remains as a territorial and statistical unit.
It borders the Tauragė County in the north, Kaunas County and Alytus County in the east, Podlaskie Voivodeship of Poland in the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in the west.
History
The county includes part of the ancient Sudovian lands. After the long fights with the Teutonic Order in the late 13th - 14th centuries, most of the old inhabitants of Sudovia were decimated and the land was ravaged. Sudovia began to recover in the late 15th century, when settlers from various parts of Grand Duchy of Lithuania began to occupy former Sudovian lands. The close proximity to Poland and Prussia allowed the new settlers to establish close trade links.
During the Kościuszko Uprising, in 1794, Vilkaviškis was the site of a battle between Polish insurgents and Prussian troops.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Marijampolė County” is county of Lithuania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Marijampolė, County and county, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q853948. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 1794.
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This entry incorporates text from “Marijampolė County” 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.