(Belarusian: Ваўкавыск, romanized: Vaŭkavysk; Russian: Волковыск; Polish: Wołkowysk; Yiddish: וואלקאוויסק) is a town in Grodno Region, in western Belarus...

In the period between 1919 and 1939 Wołkowysk County was part of the Second Polish Republic. It was part of the Białystok Voivodeship and the seat of...

during the Soviet invasion of Poland. It was fought between the Polish Wołkowysk Cavalry Brigade commanded by Wacław Przeździecki and Edmund Heldut-Tarnasiewicz...

and Jadwiga (née Bielska). She attended gimnazjum in Nowa Wilejka and Wołkowysk until she left home in 1929, for Białystok. She married Franciszek Wójcicki...

Przeździecki's Grodno Defense Group included Edmund Heldut-Tarnasiewicz's Wołkowysk Cavalry Brigade, Stanisław Szostak's 32nd Armored Reconnaissance Group...

Wilno Land) as well as in parts of the Białystok Voivodeship (Grodno and Wołkowysk Counties). In the part of Wilno Voivodeship (until 1926 Wilno Land), in...

population of 4,407. Roś was a private town, administratively located in the Wołkowysk County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

683) 0.1% (9) 0.3% (45) 4% (656) 2.3% (369) 0% (2) 0.2% (35)  Belarus Wołkowysk 15,027 49.6% (7,448) 38.8% (5,827) 0% (7) 0.1% (10) 6.9% (1,038) 4.6% (689)...

which included the Białystok, Bielsk Podlaski, Grajewo, Łomża, Sokółka, Wołkowysk, and Grodno counties, was "attached" to (but not incorporated into) East...

(Poland), Villingen (Germany) and Épinal (France) Stalag 316 in Siedlce, Wołkowysk and Białystok (Poland) Stalag 319 in Chełm (Poland) Stalag 322 in Szczecin...

(June 15, 1853 in Wołkowysk – 10 January 1935 in Tokyo) was a Polish chess master and organizer. Born into a Jewish family in Wołkowysk (then Russian Empire)...

Stalin's Polish Puppets). Teresa Torańska was born on January 1, 1944, in Wołkowysk (since 1945 in Belarus), which was then part of the Second Polish Republic...

(Luninyets), Baranowicze (Baranavichy), Brześć nad Bugiem (Brest), Lida, Wołkowysk (Vawkavysk) and Mołodeczno (Maladzyechna) – all now in Belarus, Wilno...

(18 July 1920 Wołkowysk, Poland – 4 November 1992, Łódź) was a Polish film and theatre actor. Benoit was born on 18 July 1920 in Wołkowysk. He was of French...

Hasenpot Grodno, Landkreis Libau, Stadtkreis Lida, Stadtkreis Mitau, Landkreis Ost Talsen Planty Tuckum Radun Windau Sokolka Swislocz Wasilischky Wolkowysk...

variations are named after Janowski. Born into a Jewish-Polish family in Wołkowysk, Russian Empire (now Belarus), he settled in Paris around 1890 and began...

683) 0.1% (9) 0.3% (45) 4% (656) 2.3% (369) 0% (2) 0.2% (35)  Belarus Wołkowysk 15,027 49.6% (7,448) 38.8% (5,827) 0% (7) 0.1% (10) 6.9% (1,038) 4.6% (689)...

Uprising in 1794. The Voivodeship consisted of three parts: Grodno Land Wołkowysk Land Sokółka Land Volumina legum t. 10 Konstytucje Sejmu Grodzieńskiego...

Invasion of Poland in 1939, he was the commanding officer of the reserve Wołkowysk Cavalry Brigade that fought in the battle of Grodno. Wacław Jan Przeździecki...

Leo Low (born Moshe Leib Liow; 15 January 1878, Wolkowysk, Grodno Governorate – 5 October 1960, New York City) was Jewish choral conductor, composer,...

(present-day Belarus). He grew up in a Polish Jewish family on a large farm near Wolkowysk and was one of three children born to Józef Lemkin and Bella née Pomeranz...

tie down main Russian forces by a frontal attack aimed at Grodno and Wołkowysk (modern Vaŭkavysk, Belarus). Simultaneously, a strong force detached from...

collaborators Polish people Home Army Cursed soldiers Grodno Self Defense [pl] Wołkowysk Self Defense [pl] Both sides claimed victory World War II (1941–1944)...

4, 1921 the voivodeship was expanded by three more counties: Grodno, Wołkowysk and Białowieża. On September 1, 1939 with the Invasion of Poland by Nazi...

19th century there was a cloth factory there, eventually moved to nearby Wołkowysk, a distillery and barracks. As of the late 19th century there were more...

the Podlaskie Voivodeship. In 1793, the counties of Grodno, Sokółka and Wołkowysk one of Nowogródek Voivodeship were merged into Grodno Voivodeship. After...

withdrew to Królowy Most and further to Wołkowysk. In Wołkowysk, the battalion became part of the "Wołkowysk" Group of Brig. Gen. Wacław Przeździecki...

with the world by a railroad linking Bielsk Podlaski and Siedlce with Wołkowysk. Hajnówka became a minor transport junction and in 1900 a road was built...

Republic: Baranovichi (Baranowicze), Bielsk, Valozhyn (Wołożyn), Vawkavysk (Wołkowysk), Vileyka (Wilejka), Wilno, Grodno, Dzisna, Kosava, Lida, Maladzyechna...

competences extended to powiats: Białystok, Bielsk, Sokółka, Grodno and Wołkowysk. Augusta Cyfrowicz was appointed as commissioner of the Białystok Poviat...