Widugiery
Widugiery | |
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Village | |
  Widugiery | |
| Coordinates: 54°12′N 23°20′E / 54.200°N 23.333°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie |
| County | Sejny |
| Gmina | Puńsk |
| Population | 143 [1] |
| Postal code | 16-515 [2]\ |
| Car plates | BSE |
Widugiery ([viduˈɡʲɛrɨ]; Lithuanian: Vidugiriai lit. middle of the forest[3]) 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.[4] It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south-east of Puńsk, 10 km (6 mi) north of Sejny, and 121 km (75 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.
From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship
History
[edit]The noble village was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the Trakai voivodeship.[5]
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 175 and 18 homes and in 1893 it was numbered at 409 people and 43 homes.[6]
Tourist attractions
[edit]- wooden granary in homestead No. 1, 2nd half of the 19th century.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Population of Widugery village". Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ^ "Official list of post codes" (PDF). October 2013. p. 1447. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22.
- ^ VLKK 2002.
- ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
- ^ Вялікі гістарычны атлас Беларусі (2nd ed.). Minsk. 2013.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Widugiery". Warsaw. 1893. pp. 292–293.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych – województwo podlaskie" (PDF). September 2024 [2018-04-04].
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Sources
[edit]- VLKK (2002). "Atvirkštinis lietuvių kalboje vartojamų tradicinių Lenkijos vietovardžių formų sąrašas" (PDF). VLKK (in Lithuanian).
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