Białowieża

Białowieża
	Białowieża
	Białowieża
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Podlaskie
Powiat :	Hajnowski
Gmina :	Białowieża
Geographic location :	52 ° 42 ' N , 23 ° 52' E Coordinates: 52 ° 42 '4 " N , 23 ° 52' 0" E
Residents :
Postal code :	17-230
Telephone code :	(+48) 85
License plate :	BHA
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Białowieża [ bʲawɔˈvʲɛʒa ] ( Lithuanian Bialovieža ; Belarusian Белаве́жа ; German Bialowies , Bialowiez or Belowesch ) is a village in the powiat Hajnowski of the Podlaskie Voivodeship in Poland . It is the seat of the rural community of the same name .

history

Secret negotiations between Russian and Polish emissaries took place in Białowieża during the Polish-Soviet War in the second half of 1919. During the Polish-Soviet War , Białowieża became Polish.

local community

The rural community of Białowieża includes another seven villages with a school administration office.

Attractions

Personalities

Aleksander Waszkiewicz (1901–1945), major general in the Polish People's Army
Igor Newerly (1903–1987), writer and educator
Gawriil Abramowitsch Ilisarow (1921–1992), Russian-Jewish orthopedist

Individual evidence

↑ Kai von Jena: Polish Ostpolitik after the First World War. The problem of relations with Soviet Russia after the Riga Peace of 1921 (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history. Volume 40). DVA, Stuttgart 1980, p. 22.

[1] Kai von Jena: Polish Ostpolitik after the First World War. The problem of relations with Soviet Russia after the Riga Peace of 1921 (= series of quarterly journals for contemporary history. Volume 40). DVA, Stuttgart 1980, p. 22.