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Suwałki Region (Polish: Suwalszczyzna [suvalʂt͡ʂɨzna] ⓘ; Lithuanian: Suvalkų kraštas, Suvalkija) is a historical region around the city of Suwałki in northeastern Poland near the border with Lithuania.
Suwałki is the largest city and the capital of the historical Suwałki Region. Until 1999 it was the capital of Suwałki Voivodeship. Suwałki is located about 30 km (19 mi) from the southwestern Lithuanian border and gives its name to the Polish protected area known as Suwałki Landscape Park. The Czarna Hańcza river flows through the city.
In the interwar period, the Suwałki region was a protrusion of Poland into surrounding Lithuania and East Prussia (part of Germany), rather than a gap, and played little strategic importance. [3] The Russia–Lithuania–Poland tripoint near Vištytis, photographed from the Polish side, marks the northwestern end of the Suwałki Gap. Russia is ...
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda met with Morawiecki in the Suwalki region last week. “Presence of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus is an additional security risk factor for Lithuania, ...
Suwałki Governorate (in light blue) In 1867, the territories of the Augustów Governorate and the Płock Governorates were re-organised to form the Płock Governorate, the Suwałki Governorate (consisting mostly of the Augustów Governorate territories) and a recreated Łomża Governorate.
Suwałki County (Polish: powiat suwalski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the Lithuanian border.
Following the Polish–Lithuanian War, from 1922 onward it was stable and had a length of 521 km. [6] [7] Suwałki Agreement (1920) established the demarcation line through the Suwałki Region and for the most part it remains the border between Poland and Lithuania in modern times.
The demarcation line drawn through the Suwałki Region for the most part remains the border between Poland and Lithuania in modern times; notably the towns of Sejny, Suwałki and Augustów remained on the Polish side. [19] In the 21st century, the Suwałki Region (the present-day Podlaskie Voivodeship) remains home to the Lithuanian minority in ...
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