Sejwy
Sejwy | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Sejwy | |
| Coordinates: 54°12′35″N 23°11′33″E / 54.20972°N 23.19250°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie |
| County | Sejny |
| Gmina | Puńsk |
| Population | 66 [1] |
| Postal code | 16-515 [2] |
| Car plates | BSE |
Sejwy ([ˈsɛi̯vɨ]; Lithuanian: Seivas[3]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[4]
From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.
History
[edit]The royal village of the Grodno economy was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the Trakai Voivodeship.[5]
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 56 and 3 homes and in 1889 it was numbered at 39 people and 10 homes.[6]
In the period of the Second Republic of Poland, Colonel Włodzimierz Wołkowicki became a military settler in the Sejwy.[7]
Until 1952 the village was the seat of the gmina Sejwy.
References
[edit]- ^ "Population of Sejwy village". Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ^ "Official list of post codes" (PDF). October 2013. p. 1135. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22.
- ^ VLKK 2002.
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Вялікі гістарычны атлас Беларусі (in Belorussian). 2013. p. 86.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Sejwy". Warsaw. 1889. p. 420.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Military settlements - complete list" (PDF). 2016-07-24.
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Sources
[edit]- VLKK (2002). "Atvirkštinis lietuvių kalboje vartojamų tradicinių Lenkijos vietovardžių formų sąrašas" (PDF). VLKK (in Lithuanian).
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