Marcinkonys (Polish: Marcinkaà Âce) is a village in VarÃÂna district, Lithuania, located 21 km. south-west of VarÃÂna. It is the administrative center of the Marcinkonys Eldership and it houses the administrations of the Dzà «kija National Park and ÃÂepkeliai Nature Reserve. According to the 2020 estimate, it had 591 residents.
Marcinkonys town is located c. from Druskininkai, from VarÃÂna.
Throughout the history the place was under Russian, Polish, and Soviet rules and therefore it may be referred to by multiple names and spellings, including Marcinkaà Âce (Polish name), Martsinkantse (phonemic transliteration of the Polish name), Martsinkantsy (transliteration of the Russified Polish name), and Martsinkonis (transliteration of Russian ÃÂðÃÂÃÂøýúþýøÃÂ).
The settlement was first mentioned in 1637 as a camp of foresters. It began growing after completion of the railway station in its location for the Warsaw â Saint Petersburg Railway in 1864.
During the Holocaust, the town had the Marcinkonys Ghetto for the Lithuanian Jews. Some Jews escaped during the liquidation of the ghetto and managed to survive the war.
The name Marcinkonys comes from a personal name (also Marcìnka, Marciñkus) which originates from Slavic forms for a name Martin, Marcin (, ).