Mažeikiai

Mažeikiai
City
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Mažeikiai Location of Mažeikiai
Coordinates: 56°19′N 22°20′E / 56.317°N 22.333°E / 56.317; 22.333Coordinates: 56°19′N 22°20′E / 56.317°N 22.333°E / 56.317; 22.333
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Samogitia
County	Telšiai County
Municipality	Mažeikiai district municipality
Eldership	Mažeikiai town eldership
Capital of	Mažeikiai district municipality Mažeikiai town eldership Mažeikiai rural eldership
First mentioned	Sixteenth century
Granted city rights	1924
Population (2015)
• Total	35,634 (8th)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Website	http://www.mazeikiai.lt/

Mažeikiai ( pronunciation , Samogitian: Mažeikē, Polish: Możejki) is a city in the north-western Lithuania, on the Venta River. It had a population of around 45,300, making it the eighth largest city in Lithuania. The city is the administrative center of Mažeikiai district municipality in Telšiai County. It is the largest city that does not have its county.

Mažeikiai was first mentioned in written sources in 1335. A chronicler of the Livonian Order wrote about a campaign of the Order, during which the land of Duke Mažeika was devastated. The town started growing rapidly in 1869 when the Libau–Romny Railway connecting Vilnius and Liepāja was constructed. In 1893, the town had 13 shops and 5 alehouses. In 1894 an Orthodox church was built and a synagogue had been founded several years earlier, in 1902 a Catholic church, and in 1906 an Evangelical-Lutheran church. From 1899 to 1918 the town was called Muravyov.

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