Buraki, Poland
Buraki | |
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Village | |
  Buraki | |
| Coordinates: 54°15′24″N 23°15′13″E / 54.25667°N 23.25361°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie |
| County | Sejny |
| Gmina | Puńsk |
| Population | 44[1] |
| Postal code | 16-515 [2] |
| Car plates | BSE |
Buraki [buˈraki] (Lithuanian: Burokai) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[3]
From 1975 to 1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.
History
[edit]The village was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the Trakai Voivodeship.[4]
In 1827 the village population was numbered as 68 with 9 residential homes, in 1880 it was a part of the Trakai County with a numbered population of 26 homes and a population of 219 people.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Population of Buraki village".
- ^ "Official list of post codes" (PDF). October 2013. p. 77. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22.
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Вялікі гістарычны атлас Беларусі (in Belarusian). Minsk. 2013. p. 71.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Buraki Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego". Warsaw. 1880. p. 473.
Sources
[edit]- VLKK (2002). "Atvirkštinis lietuvių kalboje vartojamų tradicinių Lenkijos vietovardžių formų sąrašas" (PDF). VLKK (in Lithuanian).
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