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Lida: Gediminas Castle
Lida: Gediminas Castle The Gediminas Castle, Lida, Belarus.

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Lida, city, western Belarus. Lida emerged in the 13th century as a fortified point of the Lithuanian duke Gediminas on the border between the principality of Hrodna and the grand duchy of Lithuania. The city eventually passed to Poland and then to Russia (1795). It reverted to Poland in 1919 but was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945. It contains the ruins of the 14th-century castle of Gediminas. Lida was for long a trading centre but is now a centre for food processing, with agricultural machine building and electrical engineering industries. Pop. (2006 est.) 96,500.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Heather Campbell.