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Revision as of 00:04, 16 August 2010 by Lokyz (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 379119427 by Radeksz (talk) gosh - WP:N)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Town in Samogitia, Lithuania| Seredžus | |
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| Town | |
 Coat of arms | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Samogitia |
| County | Tauragė County |
| Municipality | Jurbarkas district municipality |
| Eldership | Seredžius eldership |
| Capital of | Seredžius eldership |
| Population | |
| • Total | 749 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Seredžius is a town in Lithuania, situated on the right bank of the Neman River near its confluence with Dubysa River. According to the 2001 census, it had population of 749.
History
Southeast of the town, archaeologists discovered graves from the 3rd–4th centuries. The town also has a large hillfort, identified by historian Zenonas Ivinskis as Pieštvė, which was attacked by the Teutonic Knights numerous times in late 13th and early 14th centuries. According to the Palemonids legend, noble refugees from the Roman Empire settled on the hill, now named after Palemon, and established the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. After the Battle of Grunwald, the location lost its military purpose and became a private property of the Sapieha family. The Sapiehas built a residential palace, which did not survive. The town's first Catholic church was built around 1608–1612. The church was destroyed in 1829 after a landslide caused a by large flooding. The residents built a wooden church, which was replaced by a Neo-Renaissance John the Baptist church in 1913.
The town also had a very large Jewish population prior to the Holocaust, who transliterated the Russian name of the city into Yiddish as סרעדניק (Srednik). In 1900, Seredžius, then part of the Russian Empire had a Jewish population of 1,174. The village was the birth place of Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, the American singer, comedian, and actor.
References
- Template:Lt icon Tauragės apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai (PDF). Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. 2003. p. 33. ISBN 9986-589-95-9.
- ^ Template:Lt icon Kviklys, Bronius (1965). Mūsų Lietuva. Vol. II. Boston: Lietuvių enciklopedijos leidykla. p. 333–336. OCLC 3303503.
- Template:Lt icon Ivinskis, Zenonas (1953–1966). "Palemonas". Lietuvių enciklopedija. Vol. 21. Boston, Massachusetts: Lietuvių enciklopedijos leidykla. pp. 400–401. LCC 55020366.
- JewishGen Seredžius page | url=http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-2618970
- David Spiller, "Great Singers of the Twentieth Century", "Great Singers of the Twentieth Century", Lulu.com, 2008
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