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Narewka (river)
The Narewka (; Belarusian ''Нараўка'') River is a left-bank tributary of the Narew River in western Belarus and northeastern Poland. Etymology The Narewka River's name comes from a Proto-Indo-European root, ''*nr'', primarily associated with "water" (compare Narva, Neretva, Neris, Ner, and Nur). Geography The Narewka flows through the European region known as the ''Wysoczyzny Podlasko – Bialoruskie'' (Podlasie–Belarus Plateau) in Poland's Podlasie Province and Belarus' Hrodna Voblast. A major part of the river flows through the Białowieża Forest. The Narewka River is the main watercourse of the Polish part of the Białowieża Forest. The river is 61.1 km long, including 21.7 kilometers in the Republic of Belarus. Catchment (basin) covers an area Narewka 710.7 km sq., of which the Polish border is 491.32 km. Within the forest is 380 km2 catchment area, part of which falls in the Białowieża National Park. Catchment forest cover ...
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Ossolineum
Ossoliński National Institute ( pl, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, ZNiO), or the Ossolineum is a Polish cultural foundation, publishing house, archival institute and a research centre of national significance founded in 1817 in Lwów (now Lviv). Located in the city of Wrocław since 1947, it is the second largest institution of its kind in Poland after the ancient Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. Its publishing arm is the oldest continuous imprint in Polish since the early 19th century. It bears the name of its founder, Polish nobleman, Count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński (1748-1826). Although its origin may be traced to the foreign imposed partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century, the institute's actual history dates from 1817 in the former Polish city of Lwów, then known as Lemberg, capital of Galicia, a province of Austria-Hungary (now ''Lviv'' in western Ukraine). The institute first opened its doors to the public in 1817. Ossoliński's p ...
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Okulinka
Okulinka is a small river of Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ..., a left tributary of the Narewka at Podlewkowie. Rivers of Poland Rivers of Podlaskie Voivodeship {{Poland-river-stub ...
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Bobrówka (Narewka)
Bobrówka may refer to the following places: * Bobrówka, Hajnówka County in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland) *Bobrówka, Mońki County Bobrówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jaświły, within Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship or Podlasie Province ( pl, Województwo podlaskie, ) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Pola ... in Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland) * Bobrówka, Subcarpathian Voivodeship (south-east Poland) {{geodis ...
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Stare Lewkowo
Stare Lewkowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narewka, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus, on the river Narewka. It lies approximately north-west of Narewka, north-east of Hajnówka, and south-east of the regional capital Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up .... References Stare Lewkowo Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939) Belastok Region {{Hajnówka-geo-stub ...
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Nowe Lewkowo
Nowe Lewkowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narewka, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus, on the river Narewka. History Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the village was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and then by Germany until 1944. In July 1941, the German Police Battalion 322 expelled the entire population. Six men and six women were deported to forced labour in Germany. The purpose of the expulsion was to hinder the activities of the resistance movement A resistance movement is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. It may seek to achieve its objective ... in the area. References Villages in Hajnówka County {{Hajnówka-geo-stub ...
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Pogorzelce
Pogorzelce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Białowieża, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It lies approximately west of Białowieża, east of Hajnówka, and south-east of the regional capital Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Białystok is located in the Białystok Up .... It lies 1 km west of the river Narewka. References Pogorzelce Białowieża Forest {{Hajnówka-geo-stub ...
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Białowieża
Białowieża ( be, Белавежа, Biełavieža) is a village (population 2,000 as of 2002) in Poland's Podlasie Province, in the middle of the Białowieża Forest, to which it gave its name. The village is some east of Hajnówka and southeast of the province capital, Białystok. Location Białowieża is in eastern Poland, in Podlasie Province, near Poland's border with Belarus. The nearest city is Białystok, the province capital. Białowieża is also connected to the town of Hajnówka, some away. The Narewka River flows through Białowieża. Białowieża is the seat of the administrative district of Gmina Białowieża, which encompasses an area of and has a population of 3068 (2000). Other villages in the district are Budy, Gródek, Pogorzelce, and Teremiski. History Before 1426, a wooden hunting lodge was built for King Władysław Jagiełło on the Łutownia River, in the middle of the Białowieża Forest. The lodge was probably one of the area's first perm ...
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Narewka
Narewka ( be, На́раўка) is a village in eastern Poland, with its population estimated at 935 residents (as of 2011). It is located in Gmina Narewka, Hajnówka County, within Podlaskie Voivodeship. The village is located near Poland's border with Belarus. Many of its residents belong to Poland's Belarusian minority. The village has Polish Catholic and Belarusian Eastern Orthodox churches. It used to have a synagogue, but it was destroyed by the local Jewish population, angered after the Red Army, which had invaded Poland in 1939, desecrated the synagogue by turning it into a storage building. Narewka's significant Jewish community eventually perished in the Holocaust and has not been restored. It is in one of five Polish- Belarusian bilingual regions in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the ''Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages'', which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a seco ...
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Władysław Jagiełło
Władysław is a Polish given male name, cognate with Vladislav. The feminine form is Władysława, archaic forms are Włodzisław (male) and Włodzisława (female), and Wladislaw is a variation. These names may refer to: Famous people Mononym *Włodzisław, Duke of Lendians (10th century) * Władysław I Herman (ca. 1044–1102), Duke of Poland *Władysław II the Exile (1105–1159), High Duke of Poland and Duke of Silesia * Władysław III Spindleshanks (1161/67–1231), Duke of Poland * Władysław Opolski (1225/1227-1281/1282), Polish duke * Władysław of Salzburg (1237–1270), Polish Roman Catholic archbishop *Władysław I the Elbow-high (1261–1333), King of Poland * Władysław of Oświęcim (c. 1275–1324), Duke of Oświęcim * Władysław of Bytom (c. 1277–c. 1352), Polish noble * Władysław of Legnica (1296–after 1352), Duke of Legnica *Władysław the Hunchback (c. 1303-c. 1352), Polish prince * Władysław the White (c. 1327–1388), Duke of Gniewkowo *Wład ...
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