Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Filipów
Village
Stephen Báthory Square in Filipów
Filipów Location within Poland
Coordinates: 54°10′50″N 22°37′15″E / 54.18056°N 22.62083°E / 54.18056; 22.62083
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie Voivodeship
County	Suwałki
Gmina	Filipów
Population
• Total	1,814
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	BSU

Filipów is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is in Gmina Filipów.

History

Filipów was granted town rights in 1570 by King Sigismund II Augustus. The following year Sigismund II Augustus established a Catholic parish in Filipów. During the Deluge, in 1656, it was the site of the Battle of Filipów between Poles and Swedes.

It was annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. In 1807, it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw, and following its dissolution in 1815, it fell to the Russian Partition of Poland. It lost town status after the January Uprising in 1870.

There was a Jewish Community in Filipów; 75 years after 1939 the community Jewish Torah Scroll was recovered.

Notable people

• Władysław Filipkowski (1892–1950), Polish military officer

Notes

References

Sources

• VLKK (2002). "Atvirkštinis lietuvių kalboje vartojamų tradicinių Lenkijos vietovardžių formų sąrašas" (PDF). VLKK (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2023-09-30.

External links

• Official site of Filipów Archived 2003-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Unofficial site of Filipów

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