Karelichy

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Karelichy
Карэлічы (Belarusian)
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Karelichy
Location of Karelichy in Belarus
Coordinates: 53°34′N26°08′E / 53.567°N 26.133°E / 53.567; 26.133
Country Belarus
Region Grodno Region
District Karelichy District
Population
 (2025) [1]
  Total
5,546
Time zone UTC+3 (MSK)

Karelichy [a] is an urban-type settlement in Grodno Region, in west-central Belarus. It serves as the administrative centre of Karelichy District. [1] As of 2025, it has a population of 5,546. [1]

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History

Market in c. 1935 Karelicy, Rynak-Pastovaja. Karelichy, Rynak-Pashtovaia (1935).jpg
Market in c.1935

It was a possession of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later a private town of the Czartoryski and Radziwiłł families, administratively located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. [2] The town was devastated by the Crimean Tatars in 1505 and Swedes in 1655. [2] In 1784, King Stanisław August Poniatowski visited the town. [2] French, Polish and Russian troops passed through the town in 1812. [2]

The town was historically a center of a large Jewish community; its population in 1900 was 1,840. [3]

In the interwar period, it was administratively located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of Poland. Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 at the beginning of World War II, the town was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union, and eventually annexed from Poland.[ citation needed ]

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Notes

  1. Belarusian: Карэлічы, romanized: Kareličy; Russian: Кореличи, romanized: Korelichi; Lithuanian: Koreličiai; Polish: Korelicze; Yiddish: קארעליץ, romanized: Korelitz.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Численность населения на 1 января 2025 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2024 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 29 March 2025. Retrieved 8 May 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IV (in Polish). Warszawa. 1883. pp. 400–401.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. JewishGen.org