Facts About Tauragė
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The Population of Tauragė is 21,520 as of 2020.
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Tauragė received its city charter only in 1924 and its coat of arms in 1997.
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Tauragė is situated on the Jūra River, close to the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast, and not far from the Baltic Sea coast.
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Tauragė was first mentioned in 1507.
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Tauragė is known for having one main football club FK Tauras Tauragė which was founded in 1922.
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Tauragė is twinned with: Bełchatów, Poland; Bytów, Poland; Karlovac, Croatia; Ostróda, Poland; Považská Bystrica, Slovakia; Riedstadt, Germany; Sovetsk, Russia; Ternopil, Ukraine & Zestaponi, Georgia.
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Tauragė is an industrial city in Lithuania, and the capital of Tauragė County.
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Tsar Alexander I of Russia signed an armistice with Napoleon I in Tauragė on June 21, 1807, that was soon to be followed with the Treaties of Tilsit.
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In Lithuanian, Tauragė is a conjunction of two words: Tauras which means “aurochs”, and ragas which means “horn”, hence the city’s coat of arms.
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Notable people who came from Tauragė: Ernestas Šetkus, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Tauras Jogėla, Svajūnas Adomaitis, Edgaras Venckaitis, Rokas Giedraitis, Remigijus Šimašius & Solomon Levitan.