# Rykantai

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|name = Rykantai 
|settlement_type        =Village
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|subdivision_type1=[Ethnographic&nbsp;region](/source/Regions_of_Lithuania)
|subdivision_name1=[Aukštaitija](/source/Auk%C5%A1taitija)
|subdivision_type2=[County](/source/Counties_of_Lithuania)
|subdivision_name2=[Vilnius County](/source/Vilnius_County)
|subdivision_type3=[Municipality](/source/List_of_municipalities_of_Lithuania)
|subdivision_name3=[Trakai district municipality](/source/Trakai_district_municipality)
|subdivision_type4=[Eldership](/source/Elderships_of_Lithuania)
|subdivision_name4=Lentvaris elderate
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| population_total = 281
| population_as_of = 2011
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'''Rykantai''' is a village in [Trakai district municipality](/source/Trakai_district_municipality), [Lithuania](/source/Lithuania), 7 kilometres north-west of [Lentvaris](/source/Lentvaris). The village has a post office, a railway station and a church, Trinity Church. The [Neris River](/source/Neris_River) flows north of the village. According to the Lithuanian census of 2011, it has 281 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://statistics.bookdesign.lt/table_125_06.htm?lang=en|title=2011 census|publisher=Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania)|access-date=August 17, 2017}}</ref>

thumb|left|Rykantai Trinity church
Rykantai is known as one of the first reformats settlement in Lithuania. Rykantai is mentioned in [Leo Tolstoy](/source/Leo_Tolstoy)'s novel [War and Peace](/source/War_and_Peace) as the place where General Balashov delivers a letter from Tsar Alexander to Napoleon.

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{{Vilnius County}}
Category:Villages in Vilnius County
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