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Talachyn
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Talachyn or Tolochin is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Talachyn District. As of 2025, it has a population of 9,542.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Talachyn
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Belarus-Talachyn-Church of Protection of Our Lady-2.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of the Protection of Our Lady
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag_of_Talačyn_and_Talačyn_Rajon.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Coat of Arms of Tałačyn, Belarus.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150
- Settlement.shield_size
- 75
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Belarus
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Belarus
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Belarus
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Vitebsk Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Talachyn District
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Талачын
- Country
- Belarus
- Population
- 9411
- Elevation
- 199
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- tolochin.vitebsk-region.gov.by/by
- Image
- Belarus-Talachyn-Church of Protection of Our Lady-2.jpg
- Dialing code
- 2136
- Licence plate code
- 2
Show 8 more facts
- romanization of Belarusian (2007 system)
- Talačyn
- Commons category
- Talačyn
- postal code
- 211070
- topic's main category
- Category:Talačyn
- time of earliest written record
- 1433-00-00
- native label
- Талачын
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- Belarus Globe URL
- globustut.by/tolochin/index.htm
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- World War II
- Notable structures
- Notable people
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
Talachyn or Tolochin is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Talachyn District. As of 2025, it has a population of 9,542.
==History== The town was first mentioned in 1433. Talachyn was a private town of the Sapieha, Szemiot and Sanguszko families, administratively located in the Vitebsk Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1604 Lew Sapieha founded a Basilian monastery, church, hospital, and schools. It was repeatedly seized by Russians during the Polish–Russian War of 1654–1667. It was a shtetl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Talachyn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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