Volkovysk

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Volkovysk is a historic town in present-day Belarus, known for its centuries-old Jewish community and changing rule under various Eastern European states.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Volkovysk canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town
administrativeStatus district center
continent Europe
country Belarus
governedBy local town council
hasAlternativeName Vawkavisk
Vawkavysk
Volkovisk
Wołkowysk NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic centuries-old Jewish community
historic town
multiethnic history
hasFeature regional transport connections
urban settlement
hasHeritage Jewish cemetery
memorials to Holocaust victims
hasHistoricalEvent Holocaust in Volkovysk
World War II occupation
surface form: World War II occupation by Nazi Germany
hasHistoricalPopulationGroup Belarusians
Jews
Poles
Russians
historicalRegion Grodno Governorate
Polesia
surface form: Polesie
knownFor Jewish heritage
changing rule under various Eastern European states
languageUsed Belarusian
Polish
Russian
locatedIn Grodno Region
Western Belarus
locatedInTimeZone Eastern European Summer Time
Eastern European Time
locatedOnRiver Ros River NERFINISHED
partOf Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Belarus
surface form: Republic of Belarus

Russian Empire
Second Polish Republic
Vawkavysk District
religionHistoricallyPresent Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy

Judaism
Roman Catholicism

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Zerach Warhaftig placeOfBirth Volkovysk
Grodno Governorate contains Volkovysk
Grodno Region hasHistoricCity Volkovysk