Terespol
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lublin | ||
| Powiat : | Biała Podlaska | ||
| Area : | 10.20 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 4 ' N , 23 ° 37' E | ||
| Height : | 140 m npm | ||
| Residents : | 5537 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Postal code : | 21-550 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 83 | ||
| License plate : | LBI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Warsaw - Moscow | ||
| Rail route : | Warsaw – Moscow | ||
| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
| Gmina | |||
| Gminatype: | Borough | ||
| Residents: | 5537 (Jun. 30, 2019) |
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| Community number ( GUS ): | 0601021 | ||
| Administration (as of 2015) | |||
| Mayor : | Jacek Danieluk | ||
| Address: | ul.Wojska Polskiego 130 21-550 Terespol |
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| Website : | www.terespol.pl | ||
Terespol is a Polish city in the Powiat Bialski of the Lublin Voivodeship with about 6,000 inhabitants. It's on the bow . The border town of Terespol is one of the most important motor vehicle and rail border crossings to Belarus . The Belarusian city of Brest is located on the opposite bank of the Bug .
history
Its history begins at the end of the 17th century, the former village Błotków by the 1697 Voivod was raised Słuszko the city Terespol. The rest of the story is closely related to the noble families of the Flemmings and the Czartoryskis . During the Kościuszko uprising in 1794, the rebels lost an important battle against the Russian army, General Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suvorov, in the fortified city.
During the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, Terespol fell briefly to Austria, belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw from 1807 and was added to Russia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . Tsar Nicholas I had large parts of the city, including all the Catholic churches, demolished to improve the fortifications. In 1867 the railway line to Warsaw was inaugurated. By 1900 there were about 4,000 residents, including 900 Jews. After the First World War and the new border that made Terespol a remote Polish provincial town, many Russian and Ukrainian residents left the city. After the German invasion in 1939 , the city was occupied for almost five years. A transitional camp was set up for Polish prisoners of war, the remaining Jewish residents were murdered. After the conquest by the Red Army in 1944, Terespol became a border town again.
From 1975 to 1998 it was part of the Biała Podlaska Voivodeship .
Attractions
- Former Dominican monastery from 1863
- Classicist Orthodox church with an 18th century bell tower
border
The residents of the city now live mainly from trade and services related to border traffic, which affects the external EU border on the Bug. The border crossing systems have been renovated and expanded in recent years.
Terespol commune
Until 2013 Terespol was the seat of a rural community to which the city itself does not belong. Since then, its seat has been the village of Kobylany .
Web links
- City website (Polish)
- Website about the city (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b population. Size and Structure by Territorial Division. As of June 30, 2019. Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS) (PDF files; 0.99 MiB), accessed December 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Website of the city (BIP), Burmistrz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 3, 2015
- ^ Henry Jacolin, Ralf Roth: Eastern European Railways in Transition: Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries . Ashgate Publishing 2013, p. 91
