Malaya Byerastavitsa
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53°16′N 23°55′E / 53.267°N 23.917°E
Malaya Byerastavitsa
Малая Бераставіца (Belarusian) | |
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Village | |
  Malaya Byerastavitsa | |
| Coordinates: 53°16′N 23°55′E / 53.267°N 23.917°E | |
| Country | Belarus |
| Region | Grodno Region |
| District | Byerastavitsa District |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK) |
Malaya Byerastavitsa (Belarusian: Малая Бераставіца; Russian: Малая Берестовица, romanized: Malaya Berestovitsa; Polish: Brzostowica Mała; Lithuanian: Mažoji Berestovitsa) is a village in Byerastavitsa District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It is located near the city of Grodno.
From 1920 to 1939, it belonged to the Second Polish Republic and was part of Białystok Voivodeship. A massacre of Polish inhabitants occurred there in 1939.[1]
The village has a Russian Orthodox church named after Saint Dimitri Solunski (built in 1868),[2] and a museum.[3] An eighteenth-century estate located in Malaya Byerastavitsa is the district's architectural monument.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.orthos.org. Archived from the original on 2005-05-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Berestovitsa region | Regions | Region | Grodno Oblast Executive Committee". Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2008-10-12.
- ^ http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/grodno/berestovitsar/
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