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Lida

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Hrodna Region, Belarus
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About Lida

Lida is a metropolis in western Belarus in Hrodna Voblast, located a hundred and sixty kilometres west of Minsk. The name Lida is derived from the call of the river Lidzeya. Its foundation is associated with the Lithuanian appellative Lyda - Lydimas, meaning to fuse, to forged. There are passing mentions of Lida in chronicles from 1180. Until the early 14th century the settlement at Lida was a wood citadel in Lithuania proper. In 1323, the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas constructed a brick fort there. 1380 is commonly taken into consideration the founding year of the town of Lida.

The fortress withstood Crusader assaults from Prussia in 1392 and 1394 but it was burned to the floor in 1710. Following the loss of life of Gediminas, whilst Lithuania become divided into principalities, Lida became the capital of one in every of them, the seat of Algirdas. Lida was in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the second 1/2 of the 14th century, after the Christianization of Lithuania the Catholic parish turned into hooked up in former pagan lands and a Church turned into built via Jogaila.

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