Kalinas (Lithuania)

Kalinas is a village in Vilnius District Municipality, Riešė Eldership. It is located 2 kilometers northeast of Didžioji Riešė, by the Riešė river.

History

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In 1861, a 200-hectare land in present-day Kalinas was bought by a manor lord and engineer from Vilnius and named Miedziechowszczyzna . Later, the area was renamed to Kalin.
The village was formerly known as Medikiškės, later Kalina.
For a short period during the Soviet occupation, it was a local administrative centre.