Sławatycze
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Bialski | ||
| Gmina : | Sławatycze | ||
| Geographic location : | 51 ° 46 ' N , 23 ° 33' E | ||
| Residents : | 1104 (2011) | ||
| Postal code : | 21-515 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 83 | ||
| License plate : | LBI | ||
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| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
Sławatycze (German Schlawatitz ) is a village and seat of the rural municipality of the same name in the Powiat Bialski of the Lublin Voivodeship in Poland . It is right on the border with Belarus with an international border crossing .
history
The area belonged to the Principality of Halych-Volhynia in the Kievan Rus and was conquered by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century .
The place was first mentioned in 1499. In 1566 he got city rights according to Magdeburg law , he belonged to the Brest Voivodeship at this time .
In 1617 the Starost Raphael Leszczyński founded an evangelical-reformed (Calvinist) community in Neudorf-Neubrow , not far from here , whose church was destroyed in 1650 during the Cossack uprising.
Since 1795 Schlawatitz belonged to Austria , from 1815 to Russia .
In 1919 it became part of the Second Polish Republic .
local community
The rural community (gmina wiejska) Sławatycze includes 12 localities with a Schulzenamt (sołectwo) .
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the congregation with preachers in Christian Siegemund Thomas: Old and New from, State of the Evangelical Lutheran Churches in the Kingdom of Poland. 1750. pp. 127-129