Budslaw or Budslau ( be, Будслаў, translit=Budslaŭ; russian: Будслав, translit=Budslav; pl, Budsław) is an

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, Minsk Region,

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. It is located north of the capital

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. The main landmark is the Catholic Minor Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary consecrated in 1643. The church is known for the icon of Our Lady of Budslau. The annual celebration in honor of the icon (), which takes place on July 2, was added to the

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in 2018.

History

Budsław was founded in 1504 and granted to the Bernardines from

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by King Alexander Jagiellon. The Bernardines first erected a chapel, then a wooden church in 1589, and then a brick church in 1643–1645. Town rights were confirmed by King Augustus II the Strong. It was administratively located in the Oszmiana County in the

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of the

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. Following the Second Partition of Poland (1793), it was annexed by the

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, within which it belonged to the Vilna Governorate. In the interbellum, it was part of reborn Poland, within which it was located in the Wilno Voivodeship. According to the 1921 Polish census, the population was 88.2%

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, 7.2%

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, and 4.6%

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. Following the joint German-Soviet

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, which started

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in September 1939, the village was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Germany until 1944. The Germans subjected all Jews over the age of 12 to

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, and carried out three massacres of Jews, and some Poles and Belarusians. In 1944 it was re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which annexed it from Poland in 1945.

Notable residents

* Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič (1903–1989), Belarusian emigre politician, President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (1970-1982)Dr. Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič, VIth President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (Доктар Вінцэнт Жук-Грышкевіч, VI Старшыня Рады БНР)
in Belarusian)

Notes

References

External links

{{commonscat, Budslaŭ, Budslaw

Populated places in Minsk Region Myadzyel District Vilnius Voivodeship Vileysky Uyezd Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939) Agrotowns in Belarus