Abandoned places in Podlasie :: Kabardino-Balkariya

Otherwise: Podlasze, Padlaszsza (in Belarusian), Pidlaszszia (in Ukrainian), Palenkė (lit), Podlachia (Latin). This is a historical land of Poland, located in the Podlaska Lowland, brodząca mostly forgotten, abandoned estates and the remnants of light industry.

Abandoned places in Bialystok

Although this is my hometown, I can't protect him attractive to eksplratorów. There are some abandoned places, but it is much better to go to Podlasie the traces of the old aristocratic mansions or in the direction of Mazur behind abandoned factories. In the Bialystok you can find a few abandoned houses, a few rooms near the almost abandoned train station. In addition, my personal sentimental place, called the Hall of the Winds, which, however, in recent times, as far as I know, someone is listening.

Abandoned places in Podlasie

During his stay in Polesye, you should look to cities such as Lomza, Krynki, Sokółka or dąbrowa białostocka. However, the actual abandoned treasures lurk after Podlaskie villages where it is still possible to find many abandoned estates of a noble.

The history of Podlaskie Voivodeship

Country that for hundreds of years, the earth has an edge and a draw, hard jst for clothes in the exact geographical boundaries. Faced various influences, from the political through the cultural, religious and finishing. Here you can find Poles, Russians, Tatars, Yatvingians (people died out in the sixteenth century), Germans and Jews. Its borders were also often contractual. The region was marked by remarkable differentiation of social classes: magnateria, rich gentry, the nobility, the so-called szaraczkowa, partial or rent. In no other region of Poland privileged social status were not so tużny as here. This Kabardino-Balkaria village has developed a specific type of existence on the same territory poor, nobility and peasants, which did not differ in terms of the estate, but differed in terms of culture, customs and language.

Despite such a large mixture of religious-socio-cultural Podlasie was able to teach integral and based on the diversity of the cultural community, which finds no equivalent in the area of the Republic.

The middle ages

Between II and IV century a. C. current so-called Wysoczyznę Bialystok Bielsko was inhabited by peoples of the basis and wielbarskie. Later, from the V to the VII century on the territory of Polissya began to arrive Slavic settlers. Northern regions, lived the ancestors of the Prussians and Yatvingians. Most areas Narwii and bug almost all the middle ages was the forest and the swamps, hence few of their lives.

The so-called nadbużańska part of the Podlasie very early in the hands of Poland, which is already in 980 was conducted in these territories in a war with Russia on Settlement Czerwińskie. Eventually the land passed into the possession of the authorities of Kiev CA. 1045 year as part of the Alliance of Yaroslav the Wise with Kazimir supporter of the restoration - before, it was a controversial area.

Interestingly, in the XIII century the capital podlasia was Drohiczyn is a town with currently about 2 000 inhabitants. This age was also a period of reconciliation between the population of Russian and Polish. Age, the next is constant plucking themselves Podlasia between Poles and Lithuanians from the land belonged to the one from the other. In the period from 1440 - 1443, immediately after the death of Duke of Lithuania Vytautas, the entire Podlasie was occupied by the princes of Mazovia. Since that time attacks of Lithuania constantly the enemy ravaged the land, and even attempts to reconcile the warring parties of the Bishop of kraków and Archbishop of Gniezno yielded nothing.

In 1569, during the Polish-Lithuanian Union was the final submission for the Crown province of Kiev, brasławskiego, Volyn and Podlasie it. Due to this, the Podlasie riot given the right of the crown, and the governors of these territories sat in the Sejm. After that, the EU granicch Voivodeship: Bielsko, steel fixer, Chechanowiec, Drohiczyn (along with surroundings), as well as land to the East of Siemiatycz.

In the XVI century began the colonization of the Lithuanian forests, mostly at the expense of the Queen Bona. Then was built the Royal city: Milejczyce, Wasilków, Kleszczele, Narew whether Kuźnica. In the early seventeenth century were also established in Sokółka. There were also private city: Bodky, Siemiatycze, Choroszcz, Waniewo whether Jasionówka (latest at the beginning of XVII century).

XV - XVIII Vek

To break the ethnic persecution of Crimean Tatars and their emigration to Turkey and bad landscaping, has resulted in Podlasie, began to be retarded. Pogłębiły it back to XVII of " eternal destruction and war in 1648 Podlasie were the troops Chowańskiego, Rakoczy and Khmelnytsky. Later the troops of the Tatar and Swedish. During the Swedish expedition of General Mayerfelda many cities were completely destroyed. The fragmentation of land, noble and poor urban population also badly affected the economy. Despite all these problems, according to historians:

Despite the very large variety of ethno-linguistic and religious in Podlasie, was not ready antagonism between different nationalities. Przedrozbiorowe Podlasie never had territory disputes or fights national or religious, cohabitation of the population of Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Jewish, Tatar was usually bezkonfliktowo.

Sections Of The Commonwealth

III the partition of Poland caused an artificial administrative division of the Podlaskie Voivodeship into three parts. West-the Northern part became part of the Duchy of Prussia, the Eastern part became part of the symbols of Russian, Korea went to the Austrians. In 1809 part of the province became part of the Duchy of Warsaw.

However, the vast part of woodland was annexed to Russia, where it began nasiloną policy rusyfikacyjną. Eliminated the Roman Catholic Church, replacing it with structures cerkiewnymi. Russianness spotęgowało January Uprising. In 1837 the region was transformed into the province, and eight years later it was included in the Lublin province. After another uprising in 1863 and after the battle of Sokolov and the Hungarians executed the priest Stanislaw Brzóskę. Was established then the province siedlecką.

In 1905 in the context of improving relations prevailing in Podlasie and improve relations with the Roman Catholic Church was issued a so-called Act of religious tolerance, thanks to which the population of Podlasie was able to begin to freely choose their religion. Then came the mass of its change to Catholicism.

The First World War

The explosion of the first world war gave ludnośni hopes for the revival true of the Polish state. After its completion, in accordance with the statement of the US President and the Russian government, the new border of Poland was held on the basis of actual ethnic boundaries, and not as ran through zaborami. Otherwise, he wanted Jozef Pilsudski, who tried to restore the borders of the przedzaborowe. The entire historic Podlasie was again within the borders of the Polish state. Twenty years międzywojenne brought development, mainly for two cities: Hajnówki and Bialystok.

The Second World War

In 1939 the wok on the territory of Polesie joined the Soviet army. To solve most of the province fell under the rule of the USSR. In 1939-1941 to the interior of Russia were deported about a million people podlasia mostly elite intellectual and economic. In 1941, the territory came under the occupation of the Reich. They completely killed the Jewish population: about 150,000 Jews, after four years it was 760. In 1944, again on the territory of Polissya was invaded by the Russian army, were also defined the border of the Polish-Soviet. All of Podlasie was again included in the part of Poland.