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Pališkėliai

village in Lithuania

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ13193264 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pališkėliai (formerly Russian: Палишкели) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village was uninhabited. It is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from Pajieslys, by the Smilgaitis river, nearby the Josvainiai Forest. There is a place of a former cemetery (a heritage object).

Editorial summary

“Pališkėliai” enters the record as village in Lithuania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pališkėliai, village and Lithuania can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pališkėliai, village and Lithuania.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Pališkėliai” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pališkėliai, village and Lithuania provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13193264. Authority coordinates are 55.355, 23.721. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Pališkėliai”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pališkėliai primary sources, Pališkėliai archive and Pališkėliai research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Pališkėliai”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Pališkėliai” 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.