Voŭpa
Sign in to saveVowpa (; ; ; ) is an agrotown in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, in western Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Vowpa selsoviet.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Vowpa
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Agrotown
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Воўпа. Касцёл.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of Saint John the Baptist
- Settlement.image_seal
- BIA Wołpa COA.png
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Belarus
- 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.timezone
- MSK
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
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Vowpa (; ; ; ) is an agrotown in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, in western Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Vowpa selsoviet.
==History== thumb|left|Wołpa Synagogue, 1920, Second Polish Republic At various times it was either a royal town of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or a private town of the Holszański and Sapieha families, administratively located in the Wołkowysk County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship. It was often visited by King Stephen Bathory during his stays in nearby Grodno. In 1643, Kazimierz Leon Sapieha received King Władysław IV Vasa in the town.