Malaya Berestovitsa

Malaya Berestovitsa (Belarusian: Малая Бераставіца, Russian: Малая Берестовица, Polish: Brzostowica Mała, Lithuanian: Mažoji Berestovitsa) is a village in Belarus, Grodno Region, Byerastavitsa District. It is located near the city of Grodno. From 1920 until 1939 it belonged to Second Republic of Poland and was part of the Białystok Voivodeship (1919-1939). A massacre of Polish inhabitants occurred there in 1939.[1]

Malaya Byerastavitsa
Village
Malaya Byerastavitsa
Coordinates: 53°16′N 23°55′E
CountryBelarus
RegionGrodno Region

Village has a Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Dimitri Solunski (built in 1868)[2] and a museum[3] An eighteenth-century estate located in Malaya Berestovitsa is district's architectural monument.[4]

References
  1. Dr Marek Wierzbicki, Institute of National Remembrance (1997). "Powstanie skidelskie 1939". Białystok: Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne, nr 7. Archived from the original (stored by the Internet Archive) on July 16, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2012.
  2. http://www.orthos.org/grodno/structura_region/structura_b.htm
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2008-10-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/grodno/berestovitsar/


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