title: Šukioniai
text: # Šukioniai
  
  Šukioniai is a village in the southwest of Pakruojis District Municipality, Lithuania. It is located near Vėzgė stream about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Pakruojis.
  
  A hill fort at the location was destroyed by an attack of the Livonian Order in August 1372.
  
  Jonas Noreika, an anti-Soviet partisan accused of collaborating in the Holocaust, was born in the village in 1910. The village school is named after Noreika.
  
  