DEMENE, a village in the Daugavpils District (Republic of Latvia).

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the estate of Demmen in the Illuxt County of the Courland Governorate. From 1918 to 1940, it was part of the Republic of Latvia, and from 1940 to 1991, part of the Latvian SSR.

In the summer of 1941, six Jews were murdered in Demene.