Lithuanian villages were created moustly in beautiful places: near to the lake, river or forest. But time was flying… Little by little Lithuanian villages were disapearing, at firstvillagers and then deep traditions of our grandparents. The topic „The change of Rokiskio district villagers in XX age and social consequences“ was chosen not by chance: obsolescent villages and fast diminution of inhabitants let to look to changes of villages, reasons of diminution and future perspectives more deeply. During the years 1923- 2001 an administrative separation of Rokiskio district, that did an influence on the number of villages and on the number of villagers had changed. A part of villages were given to other districts. During 78 years number of villages fell down from 1220 till 555. Certainly, in the different places of monitors the number of villages dissapeared, is not the same. If we value this expression by per cents, this situation will look menacingly: diminution of villages hesitates from 35 till 60,9 per cents. It is not strange, that the biggest losses suffered areas of monitors, that had the highest number of villages: Rokiskio kaimiskoji, Juodupes and Obeliu- it lost almost 2/3 of all villages. And the number of villagers felldown most more than the number of villages- from 60554 till 21231. When we go through areas of monitors, we can see a lot of desolated homesteads, destroyed farms- because the number of villagers had fallen 60 per cents. The main reasons of... [to full text]