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Vowchyn
Sign in to saveVowchyn (; ; ; ; ) is a village in Kamyenyets District, Brest Region, Belarus. It is the birthplace of the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski.
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- Vowchyn
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- Village
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- Краявіды Воўчына 09.jpg
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- Holy Trinity Church during renovation in 2014
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- Belarus
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- Brest Region
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- Kamyenyets District
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- Belarus
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- 2010
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- 508
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- +375 1631
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Vowchyn (; ; ; ; ) is a village in Kamyenyets District, Brest Region, Belarus. It is the birthplace of the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski.
==History== thumb|left|175px|Holy Trinity Church in the 1930s The village was mentioned in chronicles as early as the 16th century. It was a privately owned village of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The village changed owners many times, in the 17th and 18th centuries it belonged to the Gosiewski, Sapieha, Flemming, Czartoryski and Poniatowski families. In 1720, Vowchyn came into the possession of Stanisław Poniatowski, father of the last King of Poland Stanisław August Poniatowski, born here in 1732.