Jegliniec (; ) is a

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in the administrative district of

Gmina Krasnopol __NOTOC__ Gmina Krasnopol, is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Krasnopol, which lies approximately west of Sejny and north of the regional capital ...

, within

Sejny County __NOTOC__ Sejny County () a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, in the extreme north-east of Poland, on the border with Lithuania and Belarus. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result ...

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, in north-eastern Poland.

History

Near the village there are

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s of a

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settlement. The noblee village in the Grodno region was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the

Trakai Voivodeship Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship (, , ), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795. History Trakai Voivodeship together with Vilnius Voivodeship wa ...

of the

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. In 1882 it was numbered at 58 people and 7 homes. According to the First General Population Census of 1921, the village of Jegliniec had 8 houses and 66 inhabitants. At that time, all inhabitants of the village declared

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. At the same time, the majority of the village inhabitants, 43 people, declared Lithuanian nationality, and the remaining 23 persons declared Polish nationality. From 1954-1959, the village belonged to and was the seat of the authorities of the Jegliniec community, after it was abolished in the Kaletnik community.

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* {{Gmina Krasnopol Suwałki Voivodeship Villages in Sejny County