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 | | In independent Lithuania, Jurbarkas was the township seat, containing a number of small knitting-, felting-, wool-combing- and other mills; a steam-mill with a power station and lumberyard; a furniture factory; several banks and co -operatives; a few dozen stores; a sanatorium for tuberculars and a gymnasium (secular high school) with 600 pupils. |
 | | Jurbarkas and its vicinity were the birthplace of a number of noted Lithuanian artists and intellectuals, including the poet Jurgis Baltrusaitis, the theater director Kastantas Glinskis, the opera singers Antanas and Stasys Sodeika, Prof. |
 | | JURBARKAS (German: Jurburg), town in S.W. Lithuanian S.S.R.; until the incorporation of Lithuania within Russia in 1875, the town belonged to the principality of Zamut (Zhmud; Samogitia); subsequently, until the 1917 revolution, it was in the province of Kovno (Kaunas). |
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