Tendžiogala

Tendžiogala lies in the countryside northeast of Raseiniai, near the wetlands of Praviršulis. Its name belonged not only to a settlement but to a district whose lands and villages can be traced in records from the late medieval period. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century Tendžiogala served as the centre of a local district in Samogitia. Its manor is recorded from the sixteenth century and was later associated with the Bialozor family. By the end of the eighteenth century, the district formed part of the Šiauliai subdivision of Samogitia.