Zelwa, Sejny County
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Zelwa , 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 Giby __NOTOC__ Gmina Giby is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus and Lithuania. Its seat is the village of Giby, which lies approximately south of Sejny a ...
, 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
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, close to the borders with
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and
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. It lies approximately south-east of
Sejny Sejny (; ) is a town in north-eastern Poland and the capital of Sejny County, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, close to the northern border with Lithuania and Belarus. It is located in the eastern part of the Suwałki Lake Area (), on the Marycha river ...
and north of the regional capital
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.


Geography

The village of Zelwa lies between the river
Marycha Marycha () is a small river that serves as the natural Polish–Lithuanian and Lithuanian–Belarusian border. It starts around Puńsk, flows through the town of Sejny, passes through Pomorze Lake. It is a tributary of Czarna Hańcza The Cza ...
and the shore of Lake Zelwa. On the opposite side of the river Marycha, one can find a small settlement called Kiecie - now incorporated into the village of Zelwa.


History

In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village was numbered at 111 inhabitants and 14 homes, in 1895 it was recorded that the population was 203 inhabitants and 23 homes.


Tourist attractions

*There is a small ethnographic museum in the village, including an open-air museum established by a local. Visitors are offered demonstrations of rural activities such as spinning, weaving, cordage making, net tying, wood and iron processing, flax processing, bread baking and others *In the village there is the Recreation Centre ‘Zelwa’ and several agro-tourism farms, which offer accommodation and catering to visitors.


References

Suwałki Voivodeship Villages in Sejny County {{Sejny-geo-stub