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'''Trakai''' ({{Audio|Trakai.ogg|Trakai}}; see [[Trakai#Names and etymology|names section]] for alternative and historic names) is a city and lake resort in [[Lithuania]]. It lies {{convert|28|km|0|abbr=off}} west of [[Vilnius]], the capital of Lithuania or just {{convert|7|km|0|abbr=off}} from the administrative limits of the Lithuanian capital city. Because of its proximity to Vilnius, Trakai is a popular tourist destination. Trakai is the administrative centre of [[Trakai district municipality]]. The city is inhabited by 5,357<ref name=stat>[http://db1.stat.gov.lt/statbank/default.asp?w=1280 © Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120707120909/http://db1.stat.gov.lt/statbank/default.asp?w=1280 |date=7 July 2012}} M3010210: Population at the beginning of the year.</ref> people, according to 2007 estimates. A notable feature of Trakai is that the city was built and preserved by people of different nationalities. Historically, communities of [[Crimean Karaites|Karaims]], [[Lipka Tatars|Tatars]], [[Lithuanians]], [[Russians]], [[Jews]] and [[Polish people|Poles]] lived here. Trakai was the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] capital city of Lithuania.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trakai—The Old Capital of Lithuania |url=https://visitworldheritage.com/en/eu/trakai%E2%80%94the-old-capital-of-lithuania/6826ddf9-a346-479d-bd4b-1c739cacc189 |website=World Heritage Journeys of Europe}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lithuania's historic capital Trakai celebrates 700th anniversary |url=https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1775469/lithuania-s-historic-capital-trakai-celebrates-700th-anniversary |website=[[Lithuanian National Radio and Television]] |date=8 September 2022}}</ref>

Historically, the [[Trakai Island Castle]], whose construction was finished by Grand Duke [[Vytautas]], served as a residence of the [[List of Lithuanian monarchs|Grand Dukes of Lithuania]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Trakų pilys |url=https://www.archyvai.lt/exhibitions/pilys/trakai.htm |website=Lietuvos vyriausiojo archyvaro tarnyba |access-date=3 November 2023 |language=lt |archive-date=3 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103152919/https://www.archyvai.lt/exhibitions/pilys/trakai.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=={{anchor|Names and etymology}}Names and etymology==
{{see also|Names of Trakai in different languages}}
The name of the city was first recorded in chronicles from 1337 in German as ''Tracken'' (later also spelt ''Traken'') and is derived from the [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] word ''trakai'' (singular: ''trakas'' meaning "[[glade (geography)|glade]]").<ref name="city-name-origin">{{cite web|title=Lietuvos miestų pavadinimų kilmė – tik upės ir pavardės?|trans-title=The origin of Lithuanian city names – only rivers and surnames?|url=https://www.delfi.lt/grynas/gyvenimas/lietuvos-miestu-pavadinimu-kilme-tik-upes-ir-pavardes-54756379|date=28 January 2012|access-date=29 September 2023|website=[[Delfi (web portal)|Delfi]]|lang=lt}}</ref> Since the time of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], the city has been known as ''Troki'' in [[Polish language|Polish]]. Its other alternate names include ''Тро́кі (Tróki, historic)/Трака́й (Trakáj'', modern [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]), ''Trok'' ([[Yiddish]]),<ref name="Levin2000">{{cite book|author=Dov Levin|title=The Litvaks: a short history of the Jews in Lithuania|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3xqMEseAQwC&pg=PA23|access-date=23 March 2011|date=2000|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-57181-264-3|page=23}}</ref> Troky, and Traki.<ref name="SingerAdler1912">{{cite book|author1=Isidore Singer|author2=Cyrus Adler|title=The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_w1swDm2DMC&pg=PA264|access-date=23 March 2011|year=1912|publisher=Funk and Wagnalls|page=264}}</ref><ref name="KaufmannKaufmann2004">{{cite book|author1=J. E. Kaufmann|author2=H. W. Kaufmann|author3=Robert M. Jurga|title=The medieval fortress: castles, forts and walled cities of the Middle Ages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUNauRscYQUC&pg=PA263|access-date=23 March 2011|date=13 April 2004|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-306-81358-0|page=263}}</ref><ref name="Minahan2002">{{cite book|author=James Minahan|title=Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: D-K|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2WcCIm6WaQC&pg=PA916|access-date=24 March 2011|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32110-8|page=916}}</ref> The name is the origin of the surname ''[[Trotsky (surname)|Trotsky]]'' (lit: of Traki), which [[Leon Trotsky]] would later adopt as a [[pseudonym]] to avoid profiling by the [[Russian Imperial Police]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tahmasebi |first1=Nina |last2=Borin |first2=Lars |last3=Capannini |first3=Gabriele |last4=Dubhashi |first4=Devdatt |last5=Exner |first5=Peter |last6=Forsberg |first6=Markus |last7=Gossen |first7=Gerhard |last8=Johansson |first8=Fredrik D. |last9=Johansson |first9=Richard |last10=Kågebäck |first10=Mikael |last11=Mogren |first11=Olof |date=April 2015 |title=Visions and open challenges for a knowledge-based culturomics |url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00799-015-0139-1.pdf |journal=International Journal on Digital Libraries |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2–4 |pages=169–187 |doi=10.1007/s00799-015-0139-1 |s2cid=14625717 |issn=1432-5012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40922059|title=Lev Trotsky in Anecdotes, Jokes and "Chastushkas"|author1=Rogachevskii, Andrei|author2=Wilson, Kenneth W|year=1999|journal=New Zealand Slavonic Journal|pages=375–384|jstor=40922059 }}</ref> the Polish variant of the surname is [[Trocki]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195081374.001.0001/acref-9780195081374-e-63968|title=Dictionary of American Family Names|first=Patrick|last=Hanks|editor-first=Patrick|editor-last=Hanks|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=www.oxfordreference.com|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195081374.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-508137-4 }}</ref>

==Demographics==
The majority of Trakai's inhabitants (66.5%) in 2011 were Lithuanian, although the city also has a substantial Polish minority (19%), as well as Russians (8.87%).<ref>{{cite news |title=Lithuania 2011 Census |url=http://www.stat.gov.lt/lt/pages/view/?id=2630&PHPSESSID=8c0114ade8751fd8462a09747587c599 |publisher=Lietuvos statistikos departamentas |year=2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111175440/http://www.stat.gov.lt/lt/pages/view/?id=2630&PHPSESSID=a54605f41010fbb7fdbba253cd60f330 |archive-date=11 January 2012}}</ref>

According to the census of 2021, there were 5426 inhabitants in Trakai city: 3694 [[Lithuanians]] (68.1%), 1020 [[Poles in Lithuania|Poles]] (18.8%), 395 [[Russians in Lithuania|Russians]] (7.3%), 62 [[Belarusians in Lithuania|Belarusians]] (1.1%). There are other traditional minorities among Trakai inhabitants – [[Crimean Karaites|Karaites]], [[Tatars in Lithuania|Tatars]] (also known as [[Lipka Tatars]]), [[Jews in Lithuania|Jews]] (also known as [[Lithuanian Jews|Litvaks]]), [[Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church|Russians Old Believers]] and others.

==Geography==
[[File:Trakai Castle tourists.jpg|thumb|290px|left|[[Trakai Island Castle]]]]
There are 200 [[lake]]s in the region, the deepest being [[Lake Galvė|Galvė]] with its 21 [[island]]s. Galvė covers an area of 3.88&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, Vilkokšnis lake – 3.37&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, the lake of Skaistis – 2.96&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>. There are [[Trakai Historical National Park]] and [[Aukštadvaris]] Regional Park founded in the territory of the region.

Trakai Historical National Park was founded on 23 April 1991 to preserve Trakai as a centre of Lithuanian statehood as well as the park's authentic nature. The park covers 82&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, 34&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> of which are covered by forests, and 130&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> of which are covered by lakes.

Aukštadvaris Regional Park was founded in 1992 to preserve the valuable landscapes in the upper reaches of [[Verknė]] and [[Strėva]]. The area of the park is 153.5&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, most of which is covered by forests. There are 72 lakes here, the biggest of which is Vilkokšnis.

Trakai is a city built on water. The city is surrounded by the lakes of Luka (Bernardinai), Totoriškės, Galvė, Akmena, Gilušis. There are a number of architectural, cultural and historical monuments in Trakai. The history museum in the castle was established in 1962. Festivals and concerts take place in the [[island castle]] in summer.

==History==

===Beginnings===
The first settlements in this area appeared as early as the first millennium A.D. The city, as well as its surroundings, started developing in the 13th century in the place of [[Senieji Trakai]] (Old Trakai). According to a legend after a successful hunting party, Grand Duke [[Gediminas]] discovered a beautiful lake-surrounded place not far from [[Kernavė]], then capital of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], and decided to build a castle in the location. This was how the [[Old Trakai Castle]] was built in Senieji Trakai. The name of Trakai was first mentioned in [[Teutonic Knights|Teutonic Knights']] chronicles in 1337. This year is considered to be the official date of city's foundation. When Grand Duke Gediminas finally settled in [[Vilnius]], Senieji Trakai was inherited by his son [[Kęstutis]]. The [[Duchy of Trakai]] developed and the city entered its best decades.

===Golden age===
[[File:Trakai old castle.jpg|thumb|The old [[Trakai Peninsula Castle]]]]
[[Kęstutis]] moved the town from Senieji Trakai to its current location, which is sometimes known as Naujieji Trakai. The new location was a place of intensive construction: a new castle was built on the strait between lakes Galvė and Luka and known as the [[Trakai Peninsula Castle|Peninsula Castle]], and another one, known as the [[Trakai Island Castle|Island Castle]], on an island in Lake Galvė. A village grew around the castles. The vicinity of Trakai was protected by [[Senieji Trakai Castle|Senieji Trakai]], Strėva, Bražuolė, Daniliškės and other [[hillfort]]s from attacks by the Teutonic Knights. Despite the protection, both wooden castles were successfully raided by the Teutonic Knights several times in a row.

The town was in the center of a conflict between Grand Duke [[Jogaila]] (later to become King of Poland) with his uncle [[Kęstutis]]. In 1382 Jogaila's and Kęstutis's armies met near Trakai, but Jogaila tricked Kęstutis and imprisoned him in [[Kreva]]. A few weeks later Kęstutis died in captivity and Jogaila transferred the castles to his brother [[Skirgaila]], who became the governor of Lithuania Proper. However, his rule was briefly interrupted when in 1383 joint forces of Kęstutis's son [[Vytautas]] and the Teutonic Knights captured the town. In 1392, Vytautas and Jogaila signed the [[Astrava Agreement]] ending their quarrel. Vytautas became the Grand Duke of Lithuania while Jogaila technically remained his superior. Vytautas also regained his father's lands, including Trakai. Despite his official capital being in Vilnius, Vytautas spent more time in Trakai. In the early 15th century he replaced the older, wooden fortress with a stone castle. Some design elements were borrowed from the castles of the Teutonic Knights as Vytautas spent some time with the Teutons forming an alliance against Jogaila in earlier years.

[[File:Trakai Karaite house.JPG|thumb|left|A typical triple-windowed wooden Karaim house in Trakai]]
Trakai became a political and an administrative centre of the Duchy, sometimes named the ''de facto'' capital of Lithuania.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://viduramziu.lietuvos.net/socium/sostine2.htm |title=Viduramžių Lietuvos visuomenė |access-date=2 May 2007 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317230848/http://viduramziu.lietuvos.net/socium/sostine2.htm |archive-date=17 March 2007|language=lt}}</ref> The construction of the brick castles was finished and a Catholic church was built. In 1409, the town was granted [[Magdeburg Rights]]; it is one of the first towns in Lithuania to get city rights. The village started rapidly developing into a town. Also in 1409 Grand Duke [[Vytautas the Great]] made Trakai the [[capital city]] of Lithuania and relocated the State Treasury of Lithuania and [[Lithuanian Metrica]] to Trakai.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trakų atradimai – istorijos ir gamtos perlai |url=https://www.lrytas.lt/zmones/keliones/2019/02/04/news/traku-atradimai-istorijos-ir-gamtos-perlai-9105577 |website=[[Lrytas.lt]] |language=lt}}</ref> In 1413, it became a seat of the [[Trakai Voivodeship]] and a notable center of administration and commerce.

===Decline and reconstruction===
[[File:Lithuania Trakai Old Post.jpg|thumb|The old post office building]]
[[File:Užutrakio dvaras 28.JPG|thumb|[[Užutrakis Manor]], which previously belonged to the [[Tyszkiewicz family]]]]
[[File:Troki. Трокі (T. Makoŭski, 1600).jpg|thumb|Panorama of Trakai, engraving by Tomasz Makowski (1600). The panorama shows the city's most important buildings, including the Tatar mosque.]]
After the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] joined the [[Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569)|Kingdom of Poland]] to form the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] in 1569, the castles remained a royal property, but the town's importance gradually declined, with the nearby Vilnius and the political center of the Commonwealth in [[Kraków]] becoming far more important. Nevertheless, it continued to be the seat of the local [[Sejmik]]. In Polish sources, the town name was started to be referred to as ''Troki''. In 1477, the castle on the lake was a meeting place of King [[Casimir IV Jagiellon|Casimir IV]] with [[Venice|Venetian]] envoys. After that, the castle became a luxurious prison for political prisoners. [[Sigismund I the Old]] imprisoned the members of [[Goštautai]] family, believed to be conspiring with [[Michael Glinski]]. Also Helena, widow of King [[Alexander Jagiellon|Alexander]] was kept there in order to prevent her escape to the [[Grand Duchy of Moscow]]. The castle was refurbished by King [[Sigismund I the Old]], who set up his summer residence there; however, after his death in 1548, the castle gradually fell into disrepair.

During the [[Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)|wars between Russia and Poland]] between 1654 and 1667, the town was plundered and burnt. In the aftermath of the war with the [[Tsardom of Russia]] in 1655, both castles were demolished and the town's prosperity ended. The castle ruins remained a historical landmark. During the [[Great Northern War]] (1700–1721) Trakai was plundered again, as famine and plague swept the country.

[[File:Stanisław Masłowski (1853-1926), Troki - pejzaż (Landscape of Trakai) watercolor on paper, 1904.jpeg|thumb|left|''Troki - pejzaż'' - [[Landscape]] of Trakai (view of the [[Crimean Karaites|Karaim]] bank),<ref>See (in Polish): [[Maciej Masłowski]]: [[Stanisław Masłowski]] - Materiały do życiorysu i twórczości, [[Wrocław]], 1957, [[Ossolineum]], p.140</ref> 1904, [[watercolor]] on paper by [[Stanisław Masłowski]]]]
After the [[Partitions of Poland]] in 1795, the area was annexed by the [[Russian Empire]]. After [[World War I]], the area became part of the restored [[Second Polish Republic|Republic of Poland]]. In 1929, the Polish authorities ordered reconstruction and restoration of the Trakai Island Castle. The works in the Upper castle were almost complete in 1939, when the [[Invasion of Poland]] started and the area was soon annexed by the [[Soviet Union]], then by [[Nazi Germany]] during [[Operation Barbarossa]]. During the war, more than 5,000 Jews from the Trakai region were murdered by the Nazis. In 1944, during [[Operation Tempest]], the town was liberated by joint forces of the underground Polish [[Home Army]] and [[Soviet partisans]]. After [[World War II]] it was again annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the [[Lithuanian SSR]] in the Soviet Union; subsequently many of the city's and area's ethnic Polish inhabitants left for the [[recovered Territories]] of the [[Polish People's Republic]].

In 1961, the reconstruction of the upper castle and a high tower construction were completed; however, the works came to a halt as a result of [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s speech of 21 December 1960, where the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|First Secretary]] declared that reconstruction of the castle would be a sign of glorification of Lithuania's [[feudalism|feudal]] past. Restoration work in the lower castle were not resumed until the 1980s and were completed by Lithuanian authorities in the early 1990s. Today the Island Castle serves as the main tourist attraction, hosting various cultural events such as operas and concerts.

==Karaim community==
[[File:Trakai Kenesa.JPG|left|thumb|The Karaim [[kenesa]]]]
[[Crimean Karaites|Karaim]] (or Karaites) are a small [[Karaim language|Turkic-speaking]] religious and [[Jewish]] ethnic group resettled to Trakai by Grand Duke [[Vytautas]] in 1397 and 1398 from [[Crimea]], after one of his successful military campaigns against the [[Golden Horde]]. Both Christian and Karaim communities were granted separate self-government in accordance with the [[Magdeburg rights]]. Despite ever-increasing [[Polonisation]], Trakai remained a notable center of Karaim cultural and religious life. Scholars who were active in Trakai in the 16th and 17th centuries include [[Isaac of Troki]] (c. 1533 – c. 1594), Joseph ben Mordechai Malinowski, Zera ben Nathan of Trakai, Salomon ben Aharon of Trakai, Ezra ben Nissan (died in 1666) and Josiah ben Judah (died after 1658). Some of the Karaims became wealthy and noble.

The local Karaim community, which was the backbone of the town's economy, suffered severely during the [[Khmelnytsky Uprising]] and the massacres of 1648. By 1680, only 30 Karaim families were left in the town. Their traditions, including not accepting [[wikt:neophyte|neophyte]]s, prevented the community from regaining its strength. Early in the 18th century war, famine, and [[Bubonic plague|plague]] reduced the Karaims to three families. By 1765 Karaim community increased to 300{{Clarification needed|reason=People? Families? What is meant by the number?|date=August 2023}}. [[Trakai kenessa|Trakai's Karaim kenesa]] is a rare example of a surviving [[wooden synagogue]] with an interior dome.<ref>Preserved Wooden Synagogues in Lithuania, documented by the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University in 1996 and 2004
{{cite web |url=http://cja.huji.ac.il/Architecture/Wooden-synagogues-Lithuania.htm |title=Wooden Synagogues in Lithuania |access-date=17 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070805112653/http://cja.huji.ac.il/Architecture/Wooden-synagogues-Lithuania.htm |archive-date=5 August 2007}}</ref> [[Kibinai]], which is the traditional Karaim pastry, became a local speciality and are mentioned in tourist guides.<ref>Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, 2012, p. 25.</ref>

==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Lithuania}}
Trakai is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web|title=Miestai partneriai|url=http://www.trakai.lt/gyventojams/tarptautinis-bendradarbiavimas/miestai-partneriai/631|website=trakai.lt|publisher=Trakų rajono savivaldybė|language=lt|access-date=2021-03-29|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125143624/https://www.trakai.lt/gyventojams/tarptautinis-bendradarbiavimas/miestai-partneriai/631|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* {{flagicon|ISR}} [[Acre, Israel|Acre]], Israel
* {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Alanya]], Turkey
* {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Avola]], Italy
* {{flagicon|POL}} [[Giżycko]], Poland
* {{flagicon|POL}} [[Gmina Giżycko|Giżycko (rural gmina)]], Poland
* {{flagicon|UKR}} [[Ivano-Frankivsk]], Ukraine
* {{flagicon|POL}} [[Koszalin]], Poland
* {{flagicon|UKR}} [[Lutsk]], Ukraine
* {{flagicon|POL}} [[Malbork]], Poland
* {{flagicon|GEO}} [[Mtskheta]], Georgia
* {{flagicon|POL}} [[Nowy Sącz]], Poland
* {{flagicon|AZE}} [[Qazax]], Azerbaijan
* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Rheine]], Germany
* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Schönebeck]], Germany
* {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Västra Götaland County]], Sweden
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==Notable people==
* [[Isaac of Troki]]
* [[Vladimir Belsky]] (1866-1946), poet and librettist
* [[Edita Rudelienė]] (born 1978), Lithuanian politician
* [[Viktorija Senkutė]] (1996), Lithuanian rower, Olympic medallist.

==See also==
* {{portal-inline|Lithuania}}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons|Trakai}}
{{wikivoyage}}
* [http://www.trakai.lt/ Trakai Town Site]
* [http://www.seniejitrakai.lt/ Trakai Historical National Park]

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