Malaya Byerastavitsa
53°16′N 23°55′E / 53.267°N 23.917°E
Malaya Byerastavitsa | |
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Village | |
| Country | Belarus |
| Region | Grodno Region |
Malaya Berestovitsa (Belarusian: Малая Бераставіца, Russian: Малая Берестовица, Polish: Brzostowica Mała) is a village in Belarus, Grodno Region, Byerastavitsa District. It is located near the city of Grodno. From 1920 until 1939 it belonged to Second Republic of Poland and was part of the Białystok Voivodeship (1919-1939). A massacre of Polish inhabitants occurred there in 1939.[1]
Village has a Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Dimitri Solunski (built in 1868)[2] and a museum[3] An eighteenth-century estate located in Malaya Berestovitsa is district’s architectural monument.[4]
References
- ^ Dr Marek Wierzbicki, Institute of National Remembrance (1997). "Powstanie skidelskie 1939". Białystok: Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne, nr 7. Archived from the original (stored by the Internet Archive) on July 16, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help); Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ http://www.orthos.org/grodno/structura_region/structura_b.htm
- ^ http://region.grodno.by/en/region/regions/berestovitsa
- ^ http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/grodno/berestovitsar/
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