Davyd-Haradok
city in Belarus
Davyd-Haradok or David-Gorodok is a town in Brest Region, in southern Belarus. As of 2025, it has a population of 5,658.
History
Early history
Davyd-Haradok was administratively located in the Pinsk County in the Brest Litovsk Voivodeship within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1586, it was a private town of the Radziwiłł family. It was located on a trade route connecting Pinsk and Mozyrz. In 1793, Davyd-Haradok was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1795 to 1796, the town was briefly a county seat within the Minsk Governorate. The residents were mainly engaged in gardening, vegetable seed production, preparing dried fish, and producing shoes.
The 18 March 1921 Peace of Riga between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other defined Davyd-Haradok (Dawidgródek) as part of Poland in the interwar period. It was administratively located in the Polesie Voivodeship.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q956621. VIAF identifies the subject as 149006823. The Library of Congress control number is n86064345. Authority coordinates are 52.056, 27.214. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2025, 1586, 1793 and 1795.
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