Definition & Meaning | English word VAWKAVYSK

Definitions of VAWKAVYSK

1. A city in Hrodna, Belarus

Examples of Using VAWKAVYSK in a Sentence

• Historical cities of greatest importance were Grodno, seat of Grodno County and one of the main royal residences of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Nowogródek, provincial capital since 1507, county seats of Vawkavysk, Slonim and Lida, and Mir, private town of the powerful Radziwiłł family, which were granted Magdeburg Law charters in 1441, 1511, 1503, 1532, 1590 and 1579 respectively.
• Great Chancellor of Lithuania from 1720, Marshal of the Sejm from 11 June to 19 August 1703 in Lublin and Governor of Pinsk, Vawkavysk, Hlyniany, Tuchola, Wilkisk, Wilkowsk, Metel and Merkinė.
• Syrokomla (vulica Uladzislava Syrakomli) in Minsk, Grodno and in smaller towns Novogrudok, Nyasvizh, Pinsk, Vawkavysk, Maladzyechna and Pruzhany.
• As of now, the movement “Young Belarus” is represented in the following cities of Belarus: Minsk, Mogilev, Zhodzina, Grodno, Polotsk, Novopolotsk, Vitebsk, Smalyavichy, Masty, Zelva, Ushachy, Shchuchyn, Novogrudok, Vawkavysk, Gomel, Orsha, Brest etc.
• The Hramada had party cells in the following powiats of the Nowogródek Voivodeship in Second Polish Republic: Baranovichi (Baranowicze), Bielsk, Valozhyn (Wołożyn), Vawkavysk (Wołkowysk), Vileyka (Wilejka), Wilno, Grodno, Dzisna, Kosava, Lida, Maladzyechna, Navahrudak, Pastavy, Pinsk, Slonim, Stouptsy and Sokółka.
• Długosz listed 18 lands that supplied the banners: Trakai, Vilnius, Hrodna, Kaunas, Lida, Medininkai (Varniai?), Smolensk, Polotsk, Vitebsk, Kiev, Pinsk, Navahrudak, Brest, Vawkavysk, Drohiczyn, Mielnik, Kremenets, Starodub.
• The river originates between the villages of Lidzyany (Лідзяны, Лидяны) and Kulyavichy (Кулявічы, Кулёвичи) in Svislach District and flows through Grodno Region and Brest Region (Vawkavysk District, Pruzhany District, Zelva District and Masty District).
• Mindaugas established his residence in Navahrudak and succeededed in becoming master of the so-called Black Ruthenia on the upper Neman and its affluents with the cities of Hrodna, Vawkavysk, and Slonim, and also of the Principality of Polotsk.

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