Pakapės village lied about 15 km North away from Kupiškis, at the source of Pyvesa creek. The village belonged to Žasinyčiai estate, which in 1775 was purchased by Ukmergė Marshal A.Koscialkovskis. In 1794, the new owner constructed a wooden church in Pakape village, which he renamed after his son Aloyzas. Since then the village was called Alizava, and the settlement, which grew up in, that place became an administration center.
The Glemžai kin is very widely spread over Alizava area. J.Glemža was one of the most famous people in Lithuania born in this family. He founded ”The Milk Center” enterprise and managed the company. After he retreated to the West, he became a member of the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party delegation abroad and the Chairman of the General Lithuanian Liberation Committee (”VLIK” - Lith.).
R.Kiaulėnas, born in farmer's family at Naniškiai village, Alizava parish, had entered the Western world of art through Kupiškis secondary school. He painted about 500 paintings that are being compared with canvas of the most distinctive artists of France. The artist died in the USA. There is a cenotaph in R.Kiaulėnas memory erected next to his parents' grave.
The road leading from Alizava to Salamiestis extends through Bakšėnai village. In the end of XIX century a well known book spreader J.Bielinis used this road to come and visit Baksenai village. There is a beautiful quadrangle mound located next to this village.
In XVI century, Salamiestis estate belonged to the Radvilos, the Lithuanian noble family confessing the teaching of Calvin. The estate was the first center of Evangelical Reformers in Kupiškis country. In 1583 they established their church in Salamiestis. In 1595 they founded a Lithuanian school in the parish. This school is the oldest one in the region.
Salamiestis, once given rights of a town, and well-known for its markets, inns, alcohol distillery, beer brewery and elderly people home, has lost its fame over the centuries. Only in the end of XX century this small town has developed a little.
Gyvakariai village is scattered along the highroad from Salamiestis to Kupiskis. There are two cultural monuments on one end of this village, i.e. farmstead of J.Skardzius and a stone with ..devil's footprint".