Coordinates: 53°54′N 24°38′E / 53.900°N 24.633°E / 53.900; 24.633

Pyershamaysk

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Pyershamaysk
Першамайск
Agrotown
Local church in c. 1900
Local church in c. 1900
Pyershamaysk is located in Belarus
Pyershamaysk
Pyershamaysk
Coordinates: 53°54′N 24°38′E / 53.900°N 24.633°E / 53.900; 24.633
Country Belarus
RegionGrodno
DistrictShchuchyn
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)

Pyershamaysk (Belarusian: Першамайск; until 1954 Sabakincy, Belarusian: Сабакінцы, Polish: Sobakińce) is an agrotown in the Grodno Region in western Belarus.

History

Sobakińce was granted Magdeburg town rights by King John III Sobieski in 1676,[1] renewed by King Augustus III of Poland in 1755.[2] It was annexed by Russia in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. Following World War I, Sobakińce, as it was known in Polish, was part of reborn Poland, within which it was the seat of a gmina, administratively located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of Poland. Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, it was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945.

References

  1. ^ Rewieńska, Wanda (1938). Miasta i miasteczka magdeburskie w woj. wileńskim i nowogródzkim (in Polish). Lida. p. 14.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom X (in Polish). Warszawa. 1889. p. 939.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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