sentences:  In the 16th century, the town's Catholic church was built, and in 1581 the Grand Duke of Lithuania Stefan Batory gifted Alanta to Gáspár Békés (), a Hungarian general.After 1598 the town belonged to Radziwiłł family and from 1828 until the World War I it belonged to the Pamarnacki family.From the 18th century to the Lithuanian revolt in 1863 Alanta had a parish school.