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Town in Minsk Region, Belarus
Town in Minsk Region, Belarus
Nyasvizh or Nesvizh (Belarusian : Нясвіж , romanized : Niasviž [a] IPA: [nʲaˈsʲvʲiʐ] Russian : Несвиж ; Lithuanian : Nesvyžius ; Polish : Nieśwież ; Yiddish : ניעסוויז ; Latin : Nesvisium ) is a town in Minsk Region , Belarus .[1] Nyasvizh District .[1] Nesvizh Castle , a World Heritage Site . In 2009, its population was 14,300.[2] [1]
History
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Timeline of Nyasvizh Historical affiliations
Grand Duchy of Lithuania 13th c.–1569Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1793Russian Empire 1793–1812Lithuanian Provisional Governing Commission 1812Russian Empire 1812–1917Bolsheviks 1917–1918German Empire , 1918–1919SSR Byelorussia , 1919LitBel , 1919Poland , 1919–1939USSR (BSSR ), 1939–1941Nazi Germany (occupation USSR (BSSR ), 1944–1991Belarus , 1991–present
Nesvizh was first documented in 1223. It was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until 1793, but the Grand Duchy was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569. In the 15th century, while still a minor town, it belonged to the Kiszka family and later to the Radziwiłł family , and remained the family's seat until 1813.
17th-century view of the town
In 1561 or 1562 Maciej Kawęczyński founded the print works of the Polish Brethren .[3] Belarusian language book printed in Latin script , a catechism by Symon Budny , was published in Nesvizh in 1562.[4] Nieśwież Bible (Biblia nieświeska Polish translations of the Bible , also by Budny, was completed there in 1571 and published in 1572.
Nesvizh Castle was erected in 1583, and between 1584 and 1598 the Benedictines and Jesuit religious orders founded monasteries and a college.[5] Mikołaj "the Orphan" Radziwiłł Nieśwież was granted Magdeburg town rights by King Stephen Báthory in 1586.[6]
During the Great Northern War of 1700–21, the city was significantly damaged by Swedish troops. It was rebuilt in the 1720s by Michał『Rybeńko』Radziwiłł . In the aftermath of the war, in the 1740s and 1750s he founded a Pas slucki Sluck . He introduced a military school, several textile factories and restored the Corpus Christi Church and opened a print works. Michał's wife, Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa , founded the Nieśwież Radziwiłł Theatre , including a choir and a ballet school.
19th-century view of the town
Between 1764 and 1768 the city was occupied by Russian troops, and in 1772, at the First Partition of Lithuania-Poland , the library, which comprised circa 10,000 volumes, along with paintings and other art objects, was seized and transferred to St. Petersburg . Some books from the library were passed to the Russian Academy of Sciences .
After the Second partition of Lithuania-Poland in 1793, Nieśwież was annexed by Russia , and renamed Nesvizh . In 1906, the Polish Society "Oświata" ("Education") in Nesvizh was established, but its activities were hampered by the Russian administration, before banning it at the start of 1910.[6] Roman Catholic Charity Society in Nesvizh.
After the fall of tsarist Russia, fighting broke out for control over the city and surrounding region. The city came under Soviet rule in early 1919 (Polish–Soviet War ), the unsuccessful Nieśwież uprising by Polish residents took place during March 14–19, 1919.[6] powiat in the Nowogródek Voivodeship . In the 1921 census, 45.4% people declared Jewish nationality, 44.4% declared Polish nationality, 9.4% declared Belarusian nationality.[7]
Nesvizh Castle in interwar Poland
Following the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of World War II in September 1939, it was part of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1939 to 1941, then was occupied from 1941 to 1944 by the Germans in accordance with Operation Barbarossa . The town was re-occupied by the Soviets during Operation Bagration in 1944. Nyasvizh's status as part of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was solidified in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement .
Nesvizh Castle
The Jews of Nesvizh
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The Jewish population in 1900 stood at 4,687, and approx. 4,500 on the eve of the German invasion, Operation Barbarossa .[8] Judenrat was established. On October 30, 4,000 of the town's Jews were murdered and the rest confined to a ghetto. On July 20, 1942, the ghetto was surrounded by Belarusian police and the German commander announced that the ghetto's population would be liquidated with the exception of 30 essential skilled workers. The ghetto's underground organization, based on a Soviet-era Zionist group, called an uprising armed only with one machine gun, small arms but mostly knives. Most of the Jews were killed. A few escaped to nearby forests and joined partisan units, such as the Zhukov Jewish partisan unit.[9]
Demographics
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Historical population
Year 1897 8,400 — 1921 6,840 −18.6% 1931 7,357 +7.6% 1959 6,700 −8.9% 1970 9,008 +34.4%
Year 1979 11,979 +33.0% 1989 14,039 +17.2% 2006 13,883 −1.1% 2018 15,808 +13.9% 2023 15,907 +0.6%
Source: [7] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
Main sights
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Slutsk Gate
Town Hall and cloth hall
Benedictine monastery
Gdańsk House
International relations
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Nyasvizh is twinned with:[18]
Gatchinsky District , Russia
Goris , Armenia
İsmayıllı , Azerbaijan
Reutov , Russia
Rosolini , Italy
Silivri , Turkey
Zemun (Belgrade) , Serbia
Notable residents
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Notes
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References
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^ Józef Łukaszewicz, Dzieje kościołów wyznania helweckiego w Litwie , t. 2, Poznań 1822, p. 180-181
^ "Minsk celebrates 440th anniversary of first Belarusian book printed in Cyrillic alphabet" . Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus . Retrieved 2009-06-16 .[permanent dead link
^ Г. П. Пашкоў, ed. (2006). "Нясвіж". Энцыклапедыя『Вялікае княства Літоўскае』(том 2) . Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя. pp. 368–369.
^ a b c Maciej Rysiewicz (14 March 2019). "Powstanie w Nieświeżu – z cyklu "Droga do niepodległości" . Kurier Ostrowski (in Polish). Retrieved 9 October 2019 .
^ a b Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Tom VII. Część I (in Polish). Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny. 1923. p. 37.
^ "Jewish Gen Town Locator" . Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2010-07-01 .
^ Shalom Cholawski, Nesvizh in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust , vol. 3, pp.1043-1044
^ Drugi Powszechny Spis Ludności z dnia 9 grudnia 1931 r: alfabetyczny wykaz miast w Polsce w granicach administracyjnych z dn. 1.V.1933 r: wyniki tymczasowe Archived 2020-09-18 at the Wayback Machine . — Warszawa: Główny Urząd Statystyczny, 1933. — S. 1-5.
^ Беларуская Савецкая Энцыклапедыя: у 12 т. / гал. рэд. П. У. Броўка. — Т. 12: БССР. — Мн.: Беларуская Савецкая Энцыклапедыя, 1975. — С. 697.
^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик (кроме РСФСР), их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу" . Демоскоп Weekly . Archived from the original on 2011-03-09. Retrieved 2019-02-06 .
^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик (кроме РСФСР), их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу" . Демоскоп Weekly . Archived from the original on 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2019-02-06 .
^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик, их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу" . Демоскоп Weekly . Archived from the original on 2006-10-21. Retrieved 2019-02-06 .
^ Статистический ежегодник Минской области. — Мінск: Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь, 2018. — С. 45-48.
^ Статистический ежегодник Минской области. — Мінск: Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь, 2013. — С. 44-48.
^ "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 14 August 2023 .
^ "Города-партнёры" . nesvizh.gov.by (in Russian). Nyasvizh. Retrieved 2020-01-14 .
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