Zabłudów
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Podlaskie | ||
| Powiat : | Białystok | ||
| Gmina : | Zabłudów | ||
| Area : | 14.30 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 53 ° 1 ' N , 23 ° 20' E | ||
| Residents : | 2479 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Postal code : | 16-060 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 85 | ||
| License plate : | BIA | ||
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| Next international airport : | Warsaw | ||
Zabłudów is a city in Poland in the Podlaskie Voivodeship . It is the seat of the town-and-country municipality of the same name in the powiat Białostocki .
The place was founded in 1553. From 1598 to the beginning of the 19th century it belonged to the Radziwiłł family. In 1654 Zabłudów received Magdeburg city rights . During the Russo-Polish War , the city was destroyed by the Russian army in 1659.
From 1807 to 1918 Zabłudów belonged to Russia , then to the State of Poland . From 1939 to 1941 the place was occupied by Soviet troops , then by Germans (1941-1944).
There was a large Jewish community in the city before the Shoah . At the end of the 19th century, about 60 percent of the population were Jews . There was a synagogue built in the 1640s in the city . German troops burned them down in 1941.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka: Heaven's Gates. Wooden synagogues in the territories of the former Rzeczpospolita of Poland and Lithuania. Page 558. Polish Institute of World Art Studies & POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw 2015, ISBN 978-83-942048-6-0 . Early history.