Hajnówka
Sign in to saveHajnówka is a town and a powiat seat in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in eastern Poland, with a population of 21,442 inhabitants as of 2014. It is the capital of Hajnówka County. The town is also notable for its proximity to the Białowieża Forest, the biggest primaeval forest in Europe. Through Hajnówka flows the river Leśna Prawa. It is one of the centres of Orthodox faith and a notable centre of Belarusian culture in Poland. Belarusians constituted 26.4% of the town's population in 2002.
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Hajnówka is a town in eastern Poland with about 21,000 people that serves as the capital of Hajnówka County and is notable as a center of Orthodox faith and Belarusian culture in the country. The town is significant for its location near Białowieża Forest, Europe's largest primeval forest, and has a substantial Belarusian population that made up over a quarter of its residents in the early 2000s.
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- History
- World War I
- Interwar period and World War II
- World War II
- Soviet occupation
- German occupation
- Communist period
- Modern period
- Geography
- Urban layout
- Politics
- 2006 election
- City heads
- Second Polish Republic
- Communist period
- Chairman of the Presidium of the MRN
- Naczelnik Miasta
- Modern period
- Economy
- Demographics
- Jews
- Orthodox
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Hajnówka is a town and a powiat seat in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in eastern Poland, with a population of 21,442 inhabitants as of 2014. It is the capital of Hajnówka County. The town is also notable for its proximity to the Białowieża Forest, the biggest primaeval forest in Europe. Through Hajnówka flows the river Leśna Prawa. It is one of the centres of Orthodox faith and a notable centre of Belarusian culture in Poland. Belarusians constituted 26.4% of the town's population in 2002.
It is one of five Polish/Belarusian bilingual gminas 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.