Kudirkos Naumiestis is a town in southern Lithuania. It is located 25 km south-west of Šakiai. The settlement was first mentioned in 1561 as …Kudirkos Naumiestis is a town in southern Lithuania. It is located 25 km south-west of Šakiai. The settlement was first mentioned in 1561 as a village called Duoliebaičiai. In 1639 the town was renamed Vladislavovas by Cecilia Renata of Austria after her husband Władysław IV Vasa. He granted the town Magdeburg rights in 1643. However, the name did not achieve popular usage, and the settlement became known as "a town" or "a new town" instead. It was annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795. In 1807, it became part of the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and after its dissolution in 1815, it became part of newly formed Russian-controlled Congress Poland. The German name Neustadt Schirwindt is derived from the former town of Schirwindt, today a small military village called Kutuzovo, which lay just across the border. In 1900 the town began being referred to as Naumiestis.
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