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Odziena is a village in Vietalvas parish, Aizkraukle county, near the P78 highway. It is located in the western part of the parish, 6 km from the parish centre Vietalvas, 37 km from the county centre Aizkraukle and 100 km from Riga. In the vicinity of Odziena, burials from the Middle Iron Age and individual finds from the same period have been discovered. In 1843, while cultivating the fields of the Odziena manor, a horseshoe pin, spiral rings and other jewellery were found, and in 1889, while digging the foundations on the territory of the manor, skeletal graves were unearthed, in which grave goods and weapons were also found. The name Odziena was first mentioned in written historical sources in 1455. The current settlement was formed around the Odziena manor.