Bakałarzewo
Sign in to saveBakałarzewo (; ) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bakałarzewo.
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- Sumowo Bakałarzewskie Lake with the Saint James church in the background
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- Podlaskie
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- Suwałki
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- Bakałarzewo
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- 16th century
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- Mikołaj Michnowicz Raczkowicz Bakałarz
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Bakałarzewo (; ) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bakałarzewo.
==History== thumb|left|upright|Monument of Mikołaj Michnowicz Raczkowicz Bakałarz, the founder of Bakałarzewo Bakałarzewo was founded in the early 16th century, among dense forests of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian union. At that time, it was called Dowspuda Bakałarzewska or Bakałarszczyzna, but by the second half of the 16th century, it was commonly called Bakałarzewo. It owes its name to the nickname of Mikolaj “Bakałarz” Michnowicz Raczkowicz, royal writer and one of founders of the town.