Dziemianówka
village in Podlaskie, Poland
Dziemianówka [d͡ʑɛmjaˈnufka], is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Giby, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in northeastern Poland, close to the borders with Belarus and Lithuania.
History
According to the First General Population Census conducted in 1921, Dziemianówka had 14 houses and was inhabited by 57 people. Most of the inhabitants of the village, 39 in number, declared the Roman Catholic religion, while the remaining 18 declared an Old Believer religion. The religious division of the inhabitants of Dziemianówka coincided with their national-ethnic structure, as 39 persons declared Polish nationality, while the remaining 18 declared Russian national identity.
In 1929 it was documented that there was one carpenter, a wheelwright and two shoemakers. There was one lime kiln.
“Dziemianówka” enters the record as village in Podlaskie, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dziemianówka, village and Podlaskie can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Dziemianówka” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dziemianówka, village and Podlaskie provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5319795. Authority coordinates are 53.950, 23.283. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921 and 1929.
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