Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship
Filipów | |
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Village | |
| Coordinates: 54°10′50″N 22°37′15″E / 54.18056°N 22.62083°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie Voivodeship |
| County | Suwałki |
| Gmina | Filipów |
| Population | 1,814 |
Filipów (Polish pronunciation: [fiˈlipuf]; Lithuanian: Pilypavas) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Filipów. It lies approximately 24 km (15 mi) north-west of Suwałki and 124 km (77 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.
Formerly a town, Filipów had a city rights from 1570 to 1870, when, as many other former towns in Poland, it lost this status after the January Uprising. It was a site of Battle of Filipów in 1656.
There was a Jewish COmmunity in Filipów; 75 years after 1939 the community Jewish Torah Scroll was recovered