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Bobravichy
Bobravichy ( be, Бобравічы, Bobravičy; russian: Бобровичи, Bobrovichi; pl, Bobrowicze) is a village in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus. History In History of Poland (1918–1939), the interwar period, the village was situated in Second Polish Republic, Poland, in the Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939), Nowogródek Voivodeship, in the Wołożyn County, in the Ługomowicze Commune. According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 265, 99.2% Polish people, Polish. After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, the village became part of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, BSSR. In the years 1941–1944 it was under German occupation. Then the village was again in the BSSR. From 1991 in the Republic of Belarus. Home Army grave In a forest clearing near the non-existent Bobrowicze settlement, on the site of a farm burnt down by the NKVD, there is a mass grave of Home Army soldiers from the group of Lieutenant Kopaczek "Jodła" and a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.4 million, Belarus is the List of European countries by area, 13th-largest and the List of European countries by population, 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, seven regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |