Dzisna

Dzisna stands near the junction of the Dysna and Daugava rivers, on the left bank of the larger stream. The Polotsk Krivichs founded a fortress here in the tenth or eleventh century, and the settlement later formed part of Polotsk Voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Sigismund II Augustus granted it Magdeburg rights in 1569; after the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Dzisna passed to the Russian Empire.