Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Filipów
Village
Filipów
Coordinates: 54°10′50″N 22°37′15″E / 54.18056°N 22.62083°E / 54.18056; 22.62083
Country Poland
Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship
CountySuwałki
GminaFilipów
Population
1,814

Filipów (Polish pronunciation: [fiˈlipuf]; Lithuanian: Pilypavas) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Filipów.

Formerly a town, Filipów had a city rights from 1570 to 1870, when, as many other former towns in Poland, it lost this status after the January Uprising. It was a site of Battle of Filipów in 1656.

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

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