Bohoniki

Bohoniki (Polish Arabic: بوـحـونيكي) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sokółka, within Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.

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Settlement.name: Bohoniki
Settlement.other_name: بوـحـونيكي
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: 2021 Meczet Bohoniki 2.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Mosque in Bohoniki (2021)
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Voivodeship
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Podlaskie
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Sokółka
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Gmina
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Sokółka
Settlement.pushpin_map: Poland
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.population_total: 100
Settlement.timezone: CET
Settlement.utc_offset: +1
Settlement.timezone_DST: CEST

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==Demographics== Bohoniki was primarily a Lipka Tatar settlement. According to the 1921 census, the village had a population of 208, of which 99.5% declared Polish nationality, 84.1% were Roman Catholic and 12.5% Muslim by confession. Today, still a few families in the village are Tatars and practicing Muslims. Although residents don't speak their native Tatar language (often written in Latin, Cyrillic or Arabic alphabet), they have close ties to Lipka Tatar and Islamic traditions.

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