Hajnówka

Also known as Hajnowka

Hajnówka is a town and a powiat seat in the Podlaskie Voivodeship in eastern Poland, with a population of 21,442 inhabitants as of 2014. It is the capital of Hajnówka County. The town is also notable for its proximity to the Białowieża Forest, the biggest primaeval forest in Europe. Through Hajnówka flows the river Leśna Prawa. It is one of the centres of Orthodox faith and a notable centre of Belarusian culture in Poland. Belarusians constituted 26.4% of the town's population in 2002.

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Hajnówka is a town in eastern Poland with about 21,000 people that serves as the capital of Hajnówka County and is notable as a center of Orthodox faith and Belarusian culture in the country. The town is significant for its location near Białowieża Forest, Europe's largest primeval forest, and has a substantial Belarusian population that made up over a quarter of its residents in the early 2000s.

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Hajnówka
Settlement.image_skyline: Hajnowka Sobor sw Trojcy 5.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 250px
Settlement.image_caption: Orthodox Holy Trinity's Church (1981)
Settlement.image_shield: POL Hajnówka COA.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Poland
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Voivodeship
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Hajnówka
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Gmina
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Hajnówka (urban gmina)
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Ireneusz Kiendyś
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.established_date: 17th century
Settlement.established_title3: Town rights

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
World War I
Interwar period and World War II
World War II
Soviet occupation
German occupation
Communist period
Modern period
Geography
Urban layout
Politics
2006 election
City heads
Second Polish Republic
Communist period
Chairman of the Presidium of the MRN
Naczelnik Miasta
Modern period
Economy
Demographics
Jews
Orthodox
Notable people
References
Footnotes
Citations
Bibliography
External links

It is one of five Polish/Belarusian bilingual gminas in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated by the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which permits certain gminas with significant linguistic minorities to introduce a second, auxiliary language to be used in official contexts alongside Polish.

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