About: Kražiai massacre     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : geo:SpatialThing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FKra%C5%BEiai_massacre&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Kražiai massacre (Lithuanian: Kražių skerdynės) was an attack by a Russian Don Cossack regiment on Lithuanians protesting the planned closure of a Roman Catholic church in Kražiai, then part of the Russian Empire, on 22 November 1893. As part of wider Russification efforts, the Tsarist government decided to close the women's Benedictine monastery in Kražiai. The locals petitioned to keep the monastery Church of the Immaculate Conception open and transform it into a parish church. The Tsar ordered the monastery closed and demolished in June 1893. The locals started a constant vigil inside the church, protecting it from members of the clergy who tried to comply with the orders. On 21 November, Governor of Kaunas personally arrived to the town to supervise the closure. Lithuanians resisted a

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Kražiai massacre (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Kražiai massacre (Lithuanian: Kražių skerdynės) was an attack by a Russian Don Cossack regiment on Lithuanians protesting the planned closure of a Roman Catholic church in Kražiai, then part of the Russian Empire, on 22 November 1893. As part of wider Russification efforts, the Tsarist government decided to close the women's Benedictine monastery in Kražiai. The locals petitioned to keep the monastery Church of the Immaculate Conception open and transform it into a parish church. The Tsar ordered the monastery closed and demolished in June 1893. The locals started a constant vigil inside the church, protecting it from members of the clergy who tried to comply with the orders. On 21 November, Governor of Kaunas personally arrived to the town to supervise the closure. Lithuanians resisted a (en)
geo:lat
geo:long
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Interior_of_the_Kražiai_Church_after_the_massacre.jpeg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Klingenberg_N_M.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kražiai_Church_interior_(ca._1890).jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kražiai_Massacre_poster_published_in_US.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kražiai_defenders.jpeg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/People_at_the_40th_anniversary_of_Kražiai_Massacre.jpeg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 67 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software