Stoŭptsy
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Coordinates: 53°29′N 26°44′E / 53.483°N 26.733°E
Stowbtsy or Stoŭbtsy, also known as Stowptsy (Stoŭptsy) and Stolbtsy (Belarusian: Стоўбцы, Стоўпцы, pronounced [ˈstowpt͡sɪ]; Russian: Столбцы, pronounced [stɐlbˈt͡sɪ]; Polish: Stołpce; Yiddish: Steibtz) is a town in Minsk Province, Belarus, an administrative center of the Stowbtsy raion (district). It is located at 53°29′N 26°44′E / 53.483°N 26.733°E[citation needed], at the Nieman river. The population is near 16,000.
[edit] History
It was founded in the first half of the 16th century. In 1582 Stolbtsy went into the ownership of the Radziwiłłs. For a long time it was a shtetl with significant Jewish population.
In August 1924, while Stoŭbtsy was part of the Second Polish Republic, the town was the site of a Soviet-Polish border incident in which a company of Soviet raiders attacked its police station and government building in order to free two imprisoned communist activists.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ David R. Stone, "The August 1924 Raid on Stolptsy, Poland, and the Evolution of Soviet Active Intelligence, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 21, no. 3 (June 2006), pp. 331-341
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