Dowspuda
Sign in to saveDowspuda (; ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raczki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
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- Official name
- Dowspuda
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Gmina Raczki
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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- postal code
- 16-420
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Dowspuda (; ) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Raczki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
== Etymology == One of the proposed etymologies for the village's name comes from the Jotvingian language "to press hard, apply much pressure". The territory where Dowspuda is and the nearby Dowspuda river flows used to belong to Yotvingia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dowspuda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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