Telekhany

Tsyelyakhany

Tsyelyakhany

Urban-type settlement in Brest Region, Belarus

Tsyelyakhany or Telekhany (Belarusian: Целяханы, romanized: Cieliachany; Russian: Телеханы) is an urban-type settlement in Ivatsevichy District, Brest Region, Belarus.[2] It is situated in the historical region of Polesia by the Oginski Canal.[3] As of 2023, it has a population of 3,716.[1]

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History

Before 1939 it was part of the Interwar Poland, the seat of Gmina Telechany [pl], Powiat Kosówski, Polesie Voivodship [pl].[4]

During World War II, the Jewish community was massacred by a cavalry detachment of SS in August 1941, according to the memoirs of Bogdan Mielnik, a Polish resident of Telekhany.[5][3][4][6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  2. [2]
    Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2010). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Брэсцкая вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 148. ISBN 978-985-458-198-9.
  3. [3]
    Михаил Ринский, СУДЬБА МЕСТЕЧКА ТЕЛЕХАНЫ (retrieved May 17, 2022), History of the town (in Russian)
  4. [4]
    "Telechany - Virtual Shtetl". www.sztetl.org.pl. Archived from the original on 2011-05-15.
  5. [5]
    Bogdan Mielnik, Moje Telechany, Section 13 (retrieved May 17, 2022)
  6. [6]
    "Yahad - in Unum".


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