Subotniki
Subotniki
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 Church of Saint Vladislav | |
  Subotniki | |
| Coordinates: 54°05′37″N 25°45′00″E / 54.09361°N 25.75000°E | |
| Country | Belarus |
| Region | Grodno Region |
| District | Iwye District |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK) |
Subotniki or Subbotniki (Belarusian: Суботнікі; Russian: Суботники, Субботники) is an agrotown in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus.[1] It serves as the administrative center of Subotniki selsoviet.[2]
History
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1882 | 523 | — |
| 1921 | 542 | +3.6% |
| Source: [3][4] | ||
Subotniki was a private town of the Radziwiłł family,[5] administratively located in the Oszmiana County in the Vilnius Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[citation needed]
Subotniki was administratively located in the Wołożyn County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of interwar Poland. According to the 1921 census, the population was 89.9% Polish and 10.1% Jewish.[4]
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the town was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and re-occupied by the Soviet Union afterwards.[citation needed]
Notable people
[edit]- Jan Pazniak (1887 or 1895 – after October 1939), politician and publisher
- Zianon Pazniak (born 1944), politician and one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front
References
[edit]- ^ "Сельсоветы". Ивьевский районный исполнительный комитет (in Russian). 3 February 2017.
- ^ Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2004). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 362. ISBN 985-458-098-9.
- ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XI (in Polish). Warszawa. 1890. p. 522.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom VII. Część I (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1923. p. 92.
- ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom XV. Część II (in Polish). Warszawa. 1902. p. 629.
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