Daržinėlės

Daržinėlės
Village
Daržinėlės
Coordinates: 53°56′28″N 24°16′39″E
Country	Lithuania
County	Alytus County
Municipality	Varėna
Population  (2021)
• Total	19
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Daržinėlės is a village in Varėna district municipality, in Alytus County, in southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the village has a population of 12 people.^[1]

Daržinėlės village is located c. 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Druskininkai, 19 kilometres (12 mi) from Marcinkonys, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from Kabeliai (the nearest settlement), 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the Belarusian border.

Demography

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1959 34 —     1979 27 −20.6% 1989 23 −14.8%	Year Pop. ±% 2001 12 −47.8% 2011 22 +83.3% 2021 19 −13.6%
Source: 1959, 1979, 1989, 2001, 2011 2021

Etymology

The name Daržinėlės comes from a plural form of a word Lithuanian: daržinėlė ('a little shed'). The village is known as Polish: Świnny Las, Russian: Свинны-Ляс in earlier sources. It means 'a pig forest' in Slavic languages.^[2]

References

1. "2001 census" (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
2. Šimkus, Šarūnas (2023). Varėnos krašto vietovardžių etimologinis žodynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Liutauras Leščinskas. p. 16. ISBN 978-609-447-388-3.