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Kedainiai

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Kédainiai 

city, administrative center of Kêdainiai Raion, Lithuanian SSR. Located on the Nevèzis River, a tributary of the Nemunas. Kêdainiai has a railroad station on the Vilnius-Šiauliai line, 133 km northwest of Vilnius, and is a highway junction. Population, 20,000 (1970).

A chemical combine has been producing sulfuric and phosphoric acid, superphosphates, and the like since 1963. The city has electrical-equipment, metal and reinforced-concrete structural members, biochemical and wood-products, canning, and sugar plants, as well as a creamery and cheese dairy and a grain elevator. The Gothic Church of Jurgio (1403, rebuilt 1758) and a Reformed Evangelical church in the Renaissance style (1627–54) are in Kêdainiai. A museum of local lore is also there. Kêdainiai was first mentioned in 14th-century chronicles and has been a city since 1590.



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Pablo Neruda Born in the small Lithuanian town of Kedainiai, Nijole Sivickas has been living in Bogota for more than a half century.
On May 14 this year, the court in the town of Kedainiai stated that the daughter should be handed over to the custody of Stankunaite, but an angry crowd in Garliava, the small town situated near Kaunas, prevented implementation of the court's decision until another court suspended the decision regarding Stankunaite's custody over Kedys' daughter.
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