Vselyub ( be, Уселюб, pl, Wsielub) is an agrotown in

Navahrudak District Novogrudok District ( be, Навагрудскі раён, Наваградзкі раён) - a district (rajon) in the Grodno Region of Belarus. The administrative center is Novogrudok. Notable residents * Fabijan Abrantovič (1884, Vieras ...

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. Vselyub is a centre of selsoviet ''(rural council)'' within the administrative division of Belarus. Before the Partitions of Poland, it belonged to the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...

. Between the 20th-century world wars, the village was part of Nowogródek Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic. SLOWNIK GEOGRAFICZNY, TOM XIV, 65: "Town of Wsielub"

History

Vselyub (Wsielub) was first mentioned in 1422 (on the seal of its owner, ). Since at least 1434, the settlement and its serfs belonged to Jan's son Andrzej Niemirowicz (Niemirycz). It was inherited by other members of the family. Later it passed into the possession of , voivod of

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. In 1576 it was bought by Prince Mikołaj Radziwiłł. The local

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Church, built of brick and mortar, was long thought to have been erected in the Baroque period of the eighteenth century. But, archaeological examination in 1980s revealed that the building is essentially late Gothic (15th century). It has been altered by several renovations (the last of them, was done in the Gothic revival style).Баравы, Р. Невядомы помнік беларускай готыкі // Помнікі гісторыі і культуры Беларусі — 2/1987. Its title changed several times in honor of different saints (St. John, St. Casimir, etc.) During World War II, the 40 Jewish families who lived in the town were rounded up and summarily executed by the Nazis. "Catholic students clean up Jewish cemetery"
''Yeshiva World News,'' 3 July 2006

References

{{reflist, 2 Agrotowns in Belarus Populated places in Grodno Region Novogrudsky Uyezd Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939) Holocaust locations in Belarus