Narewka

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Narewka
Galeria Tamary Sołoniewicz
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Narewka is located in Podlaskie Voivodeship
Narewka
Narewka
Coordinates: 52°50′10″N 23°45′27″E / 52.83611°N 23.75750°E / 52.83611; 23.75750
Country Poland
VoivodeshipPodlaskie
CountyHajnówka County
GminaGmina Narewka
Population
 (2011)
 • Total935
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
17-220
Area code(s)+48 85
Car platesBHA

Narewka [naˈrɛfka] (Belarusian: На́раўка) is a village in eastern Poland, with its population estimated at 935 residents (as of 2011).[1] It is located in Gmina Narewka, Hajnówka County, within Podlaskie Voivodeship.[2] The village is located near Poland's border with Belarus. Many of its residents belong to Poland's Belarusian minority.

The village has Polish Catholic and Belarusian Eastern Orthodox churches. It used to have a synagogue, but it was destroyed by the local Jewish population, angered after the Red Army, which had invaded Poland in 1939, desecrated the synagogue by turning it into a storage building. Narewka's significant Jewish community eventually perished in the Holocaust and has not been restored.

It is in one of five Polish-Belarusian bilingual regions in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Wieś Narewka (podlaskie) » mapy, GUS, nieruchomości, noclegi, atrakcje, kod pocztowy, regon, wypadki drogowe, kierunkowy, edukacja, demografia, zabytki, statystyki, tabele, linie kolejowe". Polska w liczbach. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) – TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
  3. ^ Dz. U. z 2005 r. Nr 17, poz. 141

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Coordinates: 52°50′10″N 23°45′27″E / 52.83611°N 23.75750°E / 52.83611; 23.75750

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