Bykhaw
Bykhaw
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Bykhaw or Bykhov (
History
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The settlement was first mentioned in the 14th century.[4] It was a private town of the Chodkiewicz and Sapieha families, located within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[5] In 1619, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz erected the Catholic church of the Immaculate Conception of Blessed Virgin Mary, rebuilt by the Sapiehas in 1765.[5] The synagogue was built in the 1640s.[4] The town was an important fortress known for hard battles.[4] It withstood several sieges until its capture by the Russians in 1659, who then committed a massacre of its Jewish residents.[4] It was recaptured by Stefan Czarniecki in 1660. The town was annexed by Russia in the First Partition of Poland in 1772.[4] In the late 19th century the town hosted two annual fairs.[5] Residents traded in grain, hemp, flax, honey, wax and wood.[5]
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There is an abandoned military airfield, Bykhov airfield inside a military town called Bykhov-1, which is now a microdistrict of Bykhaw.
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References
- ^ a b c "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ ISBN 978-985-458-159-0.
- ^ Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская (PDF) (in Russian). Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "The history of Bykhov - private Minsk tours, day trips, city tours, military tours".
- ^ a b c d Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I (in Polish). Warszawa. 1880. p. 489.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Yahad - in Unum".
External links
- Bykhaw. Synagogues Archived 2020-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Places of interest and photos of Bykhaw on Radzima.org
- Jewish Encyclopedia
- The murder of the Jews of Bykhaw during World War II, at Yad Vashem website.
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