Mažeikiai

Listen Mažeikiai / i (Polish Możejki; German Moscheiken )? Is a city and seat of the Rajongemeinde in northwestern Lithuania.

City

In the 16th century a village Mažeikiai is mentioned that with the start of construction of the railway line Liepāja Romny and the train station was 1868, the basis for a settlement, which was expanded later to a city. 1905 Mažeikiai was a parish and even before the First World War a city. End of 1919, the district administration has moved from Seda by Mažeikiai.

The Polish oil company PKN Orlen bought on 9 June 2006 30.66 % of Mažeikių Nafta, the only refinery in the Baltic States, for $ 852 million. There was ORLEN Lietuva.

Today Mažeikiai is the eighth largest city in Lithuania.

The FK Mažeikiai is the most important football club in the city.

In the city his seat, the district court Mažeikiai ( court of first instance).

Rajongemeinde

The Rajongemeinde ( Mažeikių rajono savivaldybė ) includes: - Behind the stroke population figures from 2001 -

• 3 Cities: Mažeikiai - 42675
• Seda - 1309
• Viekšniai - 2270

• 5 town ( miesteliai ): Laižuva - 560
• Leckava
• Pikeliai
• Tirkšliai - 1626
• Židikai

It is divided into 9 administrative districts ( seniūnijos ):

• Laižuva
• Mažeikiai city
• Mažeikiai surrounding
• Reivyčiai ( based in Mažeikiai )
• Seda
• Šerkšnėnai
• Tirkšliai
• Viekšniai
• Židikai

Son of the city

• Alberta Valys ( b. 1953 ), lawyer, lawyer, politician and Minister of Justice of Lithuania