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Mielagėnai

human settlement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ584733 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mielagėnai is a town in Ignalina district municipality, in Utena County, southern Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 236 people. The town is home to a neoclassical brick church of John the Baptist. It was completed in 1790.

Famous citizens

Augustinas Janutėnas, the book smuggler.

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The public source identifies “Mielagėnai” as human settlement. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mielagėnai, human and settlement.

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—2011, 1790—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mielagėnai, human and settlement providing the first useful test.
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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 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q584733. VIAF identifies the subject as 138565982. The Library of Congress control number is n2001111437. Authority coordinates are 55.258, 26.439. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1790.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mielagėnai” 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.