Žemaičių Naumiestis is a town in Klaipėda county, Šilutė district municipality in western Lithuania, between Klaipėda and Kaliningrad Oblast. The rivers Šustis, Šelmuo and Lendra flow through it.
Town centre
Žemaičių Naumiestis market square
Coat of arms (1792)
St. Michael the Archangel Church
Martynas Mažvydas was a Protestant author who edited the first printed book in the Lithuanian language.
Statue of Mažvydas in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania in Vilnius
The First Lithuanian printed book The Simple Words of Catechism (1547)
A fragment of Lithuanian psalm Gyvenimą tas turės by Martynas Mažvydas, 1570