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Sejny
Sign in to saveSejny (; ) is a town in north-eastern Poland and the capital of Sejny County, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, close to the border with Lithuania and Belarus. It is located in the eastern part of the Suwałki Lake Area (), on the Marycha river (Seina in Lithuanian for which the town was named), being a tributary of the Czarna Hańcza. As of 1999 it had almost 6,500 permanent inhabitants, with a strong seasonal increase during the tourist season.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sejny
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Bazylika Nawiedzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Sejnach (1).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Baroque Basilica of the Visitation in Sejny
- Settlement.image_flag
- POL Sejny flag.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL Sejny 1 COA.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Podlaskie Voivodeship#Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Sejny County
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Sejny (urban gmina)
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 16th century
- Settlement.leader_name
- Arkadiusz Nowalski
- Settlement.established_title3
- Town rights
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- urban municipality of Poland
- Official name
- Сейны
- Country
- Poland
- Continent
- Europe
- Population
- 5075
- Area
- 4.49
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.sejny.home.pl
- Image
- Church and monastery in Sejny-3.jpg
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- Sejny
- postal code
- 16-500
- native label
- Sejny
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- P8168
- Sirkus Eliassen
- P6482
- Sejny
- male population
- 2398
- female population
- 2677
- member of
- Union of the Baltic Cities
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Middle Ages
- Early modern era
- 16th century
- 17th century
- 18th century
- 19th century
- Uprisings
- World War I
- Interbellum
- World War II
- Recent period and modern Sejny
- Demographics
- Notable tourist attractions
- Sports
- Notable people
- International relations
- Twin towns – Sister cities
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Sejny (; ) is a town in north-eastern Poland and the capital of Sejny County, in Podlaskie Voivodeship, close to the border with Lithuania and Belarus. It is located in the eastern part of the Suwałki Lake Area (), on the Marycha river (Seina in Lithuanian for which the town was named), being a tributary of the Czarna Hańcza. As of 1999 it had almost 6,500 permanent inhabitants, with a strong seasonal increase during the tourist season.
== Etymology == According to a legend, the town of Sejny was started by three of the old knights of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło, who after the Battle of Grunwald granted them a land parcel in what is now Sejny. The three were very old and named the settlement Seni, which is a Lithuanian word for Old Men. The name was purportedly given to the city of Sejny. However, no archaeological findings or documents support this legend.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sejny” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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