Synkowce 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 Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ...

Gmina Nowy Dwór __NOTOC__ Gmina Nowy Dwór is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. Its seat is the village of Nowy Dwór, which lies approximately north of Sokó� ...

, within

Sokółka County __NOTOC__ Sokółka County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It was created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local govern ...

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 ...

. It lies approximately north of

Sokółka Sokółka (; , ) is a town in northeastern Poland, seat of the Sokółka County in Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is a busy rail junction located on the international Warsaw–Białystok–Grodno line, with additional connections which go to Suwałki a ...

and north of the regional capital

Białystok Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the List of cities and towns in Poland, tenth-largest city in Poland, second in terms of population density, and thirteenth in area. Biał ...

History

According to the

1921 Census The United Kingdom Census 1921 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that was carried out on 19 June 1921. It was postponed for two months from April due to industrial unrest and no census was taken in Ireland due to the ...

, the village of Synkowce had 23 houses inhabited by 140 people (75 women and 65 men). The vast majority of the village's inhabitants identified with

Eastern Orthodoxy Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism ...

(124 people), while the rest identified with the

Latin Church The Latin Church () is the largest autonomous () particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 Catholic particular churches and liturgical ...

(16 people). The religious division of the village's inhabitants matched their national and ethnic structure, as 124 inhabitants identified as

Belarusians Belarusians ( ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus. They natively speak Belarusian language, Belarusian, an East Slavic language. More than 9 million people proclaim Belarusian ethnicity worldwide. Nearly 7.99&n ...

, and the remaining 16 identified as

Polish people Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common History of Poland, history, Culture of Poland, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble t ...

. In the mentioned period Synkowce was located in

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

. In the years 1975–1998 the town administratively belonged to the Białystok Voivodeship.

Other

In 2014,

ethnographic Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

research was conducted in Synkowce under the supervision of Stefan Kopa, which resulted in the publication of a monograph entitled ''Belarusian Songs of the Sokółka Land''. As part of the research, Belarusian folk songs that are lost with the passing of the oldest generation of village residents were written down and digitized. The research was carried out thanks to a grant from Minister of Administration and Digitization.http://gckgrodek.pl/piesni-bialoruskie-ziemi-sokolskiej-беларускiя-песнi-сакольскай-зям/ , title = Pieśni białoruskie Ziemi Sokólskiej / Беларускiя Песнi Сакольскай Зямлi , author = Stefan Kopa , published = www.gckgrodek.pl - website of the Communal Cultural Center in Gródek , date = 2014 , language = , access date = 2018-03-18 The local Orthodox community is subject to the St. Nicholas Parish in nearby Nowy Dwór. While the religious of the Latin Church belong to the Divine Providence Parish in

Siderka Siderka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sidra, within Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Sidra, north of Sokółka, and north of the regional capital Białystok ...

References

Villages in Sokółka County {{Sokółka-geo-stub