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Place in Samogitia, Lithuania
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Židikai is a village in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, with a population of 364 in 2021. The writer Marija Pečkauskaitė lived here from 1915 for the last 15 years of her life. She's better known as Šatrijos Ragana, "the witch of Šatrija", and her best-known works are Sename dvare (In the Old Estate) and Irkos tragedija (Tragedy of Irka).
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A Roman Catholic church. It was built in 1821.
The monument commemorates local people lost in the country's independence struggle.
Exhibiting the author's life and works.
A mall Gothic building. The grave of Šatrijos Ragana is within.
A green space with ornamental pond along the highway east of the junction.
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