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|name = Garliava
|settlement_type = City
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|pushpin_map_caption    =Location of Garliava
|image_skyline     =Garliavos Švč. Trejybės bažnyčia.JPG
|image_caption     =Church of Holy Trinity in Garliava
|image_shield = Garliava COA.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|54|49|0|N|23|52|0|E|region:LT_type:city(13400)|display=inline,title}}
|subdivision_type  = [[Countries of the world|Country]]
|subdivision_name  = {{LTU}}
|subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Lithuania|Ethnographic&nbsp;region]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Suvalkija]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[Counties of Lithuania|County]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Image:LTU Kauno apskritis flag.svg|20px]] [[Kaunas County]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of municipalities of Lithuania|Municipality]]
|subdivision_name3 = [[Kaunas district municipality]]
|subdivision_type4 = [[Elderships of Lithuania|Eldership]]
|subdivision_name4 = Garliava eldership
|subdivision_type6 = [[Capital (political)|Capital of]]
|subdivision_name6 = Garliava eldership<br /> Garliava rural eldership
|established_date  = 1809
|established_title = First mentioned
|established_date2 = 1958
|established_title2= Granted city rights
|founder=Józef Godlewski
|named_for=Józef Godlewski
|population_total =  10,234
|population_as_of =  2022
|timezone=[[Eastern European Time|EET]]
|utc_offset=+2
|timezone_DST=[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]
|utc_offset_DST=+3
}}
'''Garliava''' ({{pronunciation|Garliava.ogg}}), is a city in [[Kaunas District Municipality]], [[Lithuania]]. Garliava is located {{convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}} south from the [[Centras (Kaunas)|center of Kaunas]] and has a territory of 3,65&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>.
==Name==
[[File:Garliava_2021a.jpg|thumb|left|Park near the {{ill|Maišys|lt}} stream]]
Garliava is the [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] name of the city. Versions of the name in other languages include [[Polish language|Polish]]: ''Godlewo'', [[Russian language|Russian]]: Годлево ''Godlevo'', [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]: Гадле́ва ''Gadleva'', [[Yiddish]]: גודלעווע ''Gudleve'', [[Latvian language|Latvian]]: ''Garļava''.
==History==
In 1809 {{ill|Józef Godlewski|pl|Józef Godlewski (1773–1867)}} built a {{ill|Garliava Holy Trinity Church|lt=Holy Trinity church|lt|Garliavos Švč. Trejybės bažnyčia}} and named the settlement ''Godlewo'' in his own honour, although [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanians]] started calling it ''Garliava''. This year is generally viewed as the year Garliava was founded. It lay along a significant postal route between [[Saint Petersburg]], Kaunas, [[Marijampolė]], and [[Warsaw]]. Godlewski also built a place of worship for [[Lutheranism|Lutherans]] and a [[synagogue]] for [[Judaism|Jews]]. At the time it was part of the Polish [[Duchy of Warsaw]], and after its dissolution in 1815, it became part of so-called [[Congress Poland]] under [[Russian Partition|Russian control]]. After [[World War I]], it became part of newly independent Lithuania.
== Notable residents ==
[[File:Garliava_2023a.jpg|thumb|Monument celebrating the 100 years of the Republic of Lithuania]]
*{{ill|Józef Godlewski|pl|Józef Godlewski (1773–1867)}} (1773–1867), founder
*[[Jonas Algimantas Boruta]] (1944-2022),  Roman Catholic prelate
*[[Juozas Gabrys]] (1880 – 1951), politician and advocate of Lithuanian independence, was born in Garliava. In his memoirs, he referred to himself as the "Count of Garliava."
*[[Darius Labanauskas]] (*1976), darts player
== Education ==
There are five schools: Garliavos Juozo Lukšos gymnasium, Garliavos Jonučių high school, Garliava high school, Kindergarten and primary school of Garliava, and Garliava school of arts and music.
== Sport ==
[[File:Garliava. Sporto centras.JPG|thumb|Sport centre]]
* [[FK Garliava]] football club;
* Stadium of the school of Adomas Mitkus.
==References==
* {{in lang|lt}} [http://www.garliava.lt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=45option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=45 History of Garliava]. [[Elderships of Lithuania|Eldership]] of Garliava.
== External links ==
*{{in lang|pl}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307104236/http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_II/644 Godlewo] in the [[Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland]] (1881); the first entry "Godlewo", item 3.) within
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