Official Name: | Kurkliai |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Label Position: | Location in Lithuania |
Subdivision Name: | Lithuania |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Utena County |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Anykščiai |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 374 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 55.4111°N 25.0667°W |
Kurkliai (Polish: Kurkle) is a town in Anykščiai district municipality, in Utena County, in northeast Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 374 people.[1] Center of eldership. In town there is Anykščiai Regional Park.
The town had an important Jewish community before World War II. Jews of the town shared the fate of the Jews of Ukmerge and of the surroundings, who were massacred in a mass execution in the Pivonija forest on September 5, 1941.[2] An old wooden synagogue is still standing.[3] [4]