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Hniezna
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Hniezna (; ) is an agrotown in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, in western Belarus.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hniezna
- Settlement.native_name
- Гнезна
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- be
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Agrotown
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Гнезно, Волковысский район, Гродненская область, Беларусь 03.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Tarasewicz Manor
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Belarus
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Grodno Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Vawkavysk District
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Belarus
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 15th century
- Settlement.timezone
- MSK
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Hniezna
- postal code
- 231901
- romanization of Belarusian (2007 system)
- Hniezna
- Belarus Globe URL
- globustut.by/gnezno/index.htm
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Sights
- References
Hniezna (; ) is an agrotown in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, in western Belarus.
==History== thumb|left|Local church on a 19th-century painting by Napoleon Orda The settlement was first recorded in the mid-15th century. It was a possession of various nobles, including the houses of Szemioth, who built the local church in 1524, Chodkiewicz, Romer and Tarasewicz. It formed part of the Nowogródek Voivodeship within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hniezna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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