Shtetls

Haßfurt (; English: Hassfurt) is a town in the Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) region of Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the Haßberge district. It is situated on the river Main, 20 km east of Schweinfurt and 30 km northwest of Bamberg. In 1852, Ludwig's Western Railway reached the town and between 1892 and 1995, which also had a branch line to Hofheim. The 1867 Hassfurt Bridge, thought to be the first Cantilever bridge built, was also there.

forced distribution of Jewish population in the Russian Empire

thumb|300px|An 1893 Isaak_Asknaziy#Selected_paintings|painting by the artist [[Isaak Asknaziy of a Jewish wedding with a band in a ]] ' or ' ( ; , ; pl. shtetelekh) is a Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The term is used in the context of pre-Second World War European Jewish societies as communities within the surrounding non-Jewish populace, and thus bears certain connotations of discrimination. (or , , or ) were mainly found in the areas that constituted the 19th-century Pale of Settlement in the

town in Guba, Azerbaijan

village in Smolensk Oblast, Russia

human settlement in Monastyrshchinsky District, Smolensk Oblast, Russia

Markuszów (historically also Markuszew) is a village (formerly a town) in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Markuszów. The village is situated on the Kurówka River.