Suwałki
Suwałki? / I [ suvawki ] ( German Suwalki, from 1941 to 1944 Sudauen, Lithuanian Suvalkai ), is a town of about 69,000 inhabitants in north-eastern Poland, in the Podlaskie province, about 120 kilometers north of Bialystok, near the border with Lithuania. Lag Suwałki long time away from the major traffic flows, since the opening up of various road crossings and the only railway border crossing Poland to Lithuania on the main line Berlin-Warschau-Kaunas-Vilnius/Riga the economic significance of the city is growing rapidly.
When carried out in the year 2002 census, there were in the region of Suwałki 5097 people " Lithuanian " as a nationality to.
History
The northern part of the country of Sudovians came to the Prussian Order of State (later East Prussia ), the southern part was conquered by Poles and Lithuanians and by later border agreements between the Teutonic Order, Lithuania and Poland as a part of Podolia Lithuania.
Until 1795, the city was part of the Suwałki Grand Duchy of Poland - Lithuania. In the third partition of Poland Suwałki came to Prussia, in 1807 united with the Duchy of Warsaw and came together with " Congress Poland " in 1815 the Russian Empire.
Since 1919, Suwałki part of the Second Polish Republic. Only during the Nazi occupation Suwałki was 1939-1944 as the capital of the district Sudauen administratively to East Prussia.
Poland has in his last administrative reform created a county Suwałki. The city of Suwałki itself has the status of a city circle.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Samuel Rosenthal (1837-1902), chess master
- Maria Konopnicka (1842-1910), Polish poet
- Alfred von Wierusz -Kowalski (1849-1915), Polish painter
- Justina Pranaitis (1861-1917), Lithuanian ( Roman Catholic ) priest and Hebraist
- Vladimir Kenig (1883-1929), Polish composer
- Pinchas Sapir (1906-1975), Israeli politician, finance, trade and industry minister
- Avraham Stern (1907-1942), alias Yair, Zionist activist and terrorist
- David Star (1910-2003), Israeli politician and businessman
- Andrzej Wajda ( born 1926 ), Polish film director
- Patryk Małecki (* 1988), Polish footballer
- Joanna mendak (* 1989), Polish swimmer
Twin Cities
- Grande -Synthe, France, since 1978
- Marijampolė, Lithuania, since 1995
- Alytus, Lithuania, since 1996
- Waren (Müritz), Germany, since 1999
- Võru, Estonia, since 1999