Garliava
Garliava
City in Suvalkija, Lithuania
Garliava (pronunciationⓘ), is a city in Kaunas District Municipality, Lithuania. Garliava is located 10 km (6.2 mi) south from the center of Kaunas and has a territory of 3,65 km2.
Garliava | |
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City | |
Church of Holy Trinity in Garliava | |
| Coordinates: 54°49′0″N 23°52′0″E | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Suvalkija |
| County |  Kaunas County |
| Municipality | Kaunas district municipality |
| Eldership | Garliava eldership |
| Capital of | Garliava eldership Garliava rural eldership |
| First mentioned | 1809 |
| Granted city rights | 1958 |
| Population (2022) | |
| • Total | 10,234 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Garliava is the Lithuanian name of the city. Versions of the name in other languages include Polish: Godlewo, Russian: Годлево Godlevo, Belarusian: Гадле́ва Gadleva, Yiddish: גודלעווע Gudleve, Latvian: Garļava.
In 1809 Józef Godlewski [pl] built a Holy Trinity church [lt] and named the settlement Godlewo in his own honour, although Lithuanians started calling it Garliava. This year is generally viewed as the year Garliava was founded. It lay along a significant postal route between Saint Petersburg, Kaunas, Marijampolė, and Warsaw.
Godlewski also built a place of worship for Lutherans and a synagogue for Jews.
- Józef Godlewski [pl] (1773–1867), founder
- Jonas Algimantas Boruta (1944-2022), Roman Catholic prelate
- Juozas Gabrys (1880 – 1951), politician and advocate of Lithuanian independence, was born in Garliava. In his memoirs, he referred to himself as the "Count of Garliava."
- Darius Labanauskas (*1976), darts player
There are five schools: Garliavos Juozo Lukšos gymnasium, Garliavos Jonučių high school, Garliava high school, Kindergarten and primary school of Garliava, and Garliava school of arts and music.
- FK Garliava football club;
- Stadium of the school of Adomas Mitkus.
- (in Lithuanian) History of Garliava. Eldership of Garliava.
- (in Polish) Godlewo in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1881); the first entry "Godlewo", item 3.) within
