Jurgaičiai, Kėdainiai

55°21′11″N 23°40′59″E / 55.35306°N 23.68306°E / 55.35306; 23.68306Country LithuaniaCounty Kaunas CountyMunicipalityKėdainiai district municipalityEldershipKrakės EldershipPopulation • Total7Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Jurgaičiai (formerly Polish: Jurgajcie,^[1] Russian: Юргайци) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 7 people.^[2] It is located 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) from Pajieslys, in the Pajieslys Geomorphological Sanctuary.

At the beginning of the 20th century Jurgaičiai was an okolica, a property of the Bagdonavičiai, Ylėnai, Kelčiauskai, Krasaučiai, Kutkevičiai, Mikulšiai, Milaševičiai, Paškevičiai and Aleknavičiai families.^[1]

Archaeologist Laima Vaitkunskienė led excavations examining medieval cemeteries in the area.^[3]

Demography

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1902 112 —     1923 62 −2.78% 1959 44 −0.95% 1970 42 −0.42%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1979 30 −3.67% 1989 18 −4.98% 2001 8 −6.53% 2011 7 −1.33%
Source: 1902, 1923, 1959 & 1970, 1979, 1989, 2001, 2011

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