Naroulja

Naroulja | Narovlya
Наро́ўля | Наровля
( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )
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State :	Belarus
Woblasz :	Homel
Coordinates :	51 ° 48 ′  N , 29 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′  N , 29 ° 30 ′  E
Residents :	8,110 (2009)
Time zone :	Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )
Telephone code :	([phone]
Postal code :	247802
Naroulja

Naroulja ( Belarusian Наро́ўля , Russian Наровля / Narowlja) is a city in Belarus in Homelskaya Woblasz near the Ukrainian border . The city borders the Pripyat and is connected to the cities of Mazyr and Jelsk by a highway .

history

According to archaeological sources, Naroulja is said to have been inhabited as early as the 18th century. In 1793 it was added to the Russian Empire during the second partition of Poland .

Naroulja was part of the Pale of Settlement and housed 1,600 Jewish people. A wooden synagogue with an imposing roof structure no longer exists. The last photos of her are from the time of the First World War.

In 1971 Naroulja received city ​​rights . The city is badly affected by the Chernobyl disaster .

Web links

Commons : Naroulja  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the city of Naroulja

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jewish population 1897
2. ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Page 395, 396. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2015, ISBN 978-83-942048-6-0 .