Ašašninkai is a village in Varėna district municipality, in Alytus County, in southeastern Lithuania.

Ašašninkai is the southernmost inhabited place is Lithuania.

The name Ašašninkai (in Dzūkian Ašašnykai) comes from Lithuanian: ašašnykas < Belarusian: асочнік, Russian: осочник which mean 'a hunter beater, a forest ranger, a forest keeper, a tracker'.

Before 1990 the village was officially called Kabeliai II.

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