Kalodzishchy (; ) is an agrotown in

Minsk District Minsk district (; ) is a districts of Belarus, district (raion) of Belarus in Minsk region. The administrative center is the capital Minsk, which is administratively separated from the district and region. As of 2024, it has a population of 27 ...

, Minsk Region,

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. It serves as the administrative center of Kalodzishchy rural council. As of 2023, it has a population of 19,898.

History

Kołodziszcze, as it was known in Polish, was a

zaścianek Zaścianek (, literally: "

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beyond the wall") was historically a village or a part of a village where petty nobility (''drobna szlachta'') lived, who did not own peasants and cultivated their land by the hands of their own family. The deri ...

. Following the

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(1793), it was annexed by

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. On 31 October 2023, an explosion was reported at a military base near Kalodzishchy. The

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claimed that the explosion had been deliberately orchestrated.

References

{{Belarus-geo-stub Populated places in Minsk region Agrotowns in Belarus Minsk district