Rutka is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Dubicze Cerkiewne __NOTOC__ Gmina Dubicze Cerkiewne is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. Its seat is the village of Dubicze Cerkiewne, which lies approximately so ...

, within

Hajnówka County __NOTOC__ Hajnówka County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local g ...

Podlaskie Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship in northeastern Poland. The name of the voivodeship refers to the historical region of Podlachia (in Polish, ''Podlasie''), and significant part of its territory corresponds to th ...

, in north-eastern

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

, close to the border with

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

history

The village was built in 1568, when King

Sigismund Augustus Sigismund II Augustus (, ; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and t ...

leased the town of

Kleszczele Kleszczele (, , Podlachian: ''Kliščéli'') is a town in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland. History Kleszczele was granted town rights by King Sigismund I the Old in 1523. It was a royal town of Poland. Queen conso ...

and its environs to Stanisław Czadzinski, It was included in the lease of 6 villages belonging to the city of Bielsko, They are

Dubicze Cerkiewne Dubicze Cerkiewne (; , ''Dubičy Carkoŭnyja''; Podlachian: ''Dúbičy Cerkóvny'') is a village in Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative di ...

, Grabowiec, Czechy Orlańskie, Jelonkę, Suchowolce, Rutka

References

Villages in Hajnówka County {{Hajnówka-geo-stub