Ščytkavičy
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Shchytkavichy or Shchitkovichi (; ; ) is an agrotown in Staryya Darohi District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Shchytkavichy selsoviet.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in BY, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Agrotowns in Belarus, Igumensky Uyezd and Populated places in Minsk region.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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Shchytkavichy or Shchitkovichi (; ; ) is an agrotown in Staryya Darohi District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Shchytkavichy selsoviet.
== Toponymy == The suffix -vichi or -wicze, derived from Old Polish, indicates that this is a patronymic name. The lexical morpheme of a patronymic name could be the name of a father's office or ancestors or the name or surname of a patron (e.g. the Polish surname Szczytko).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ščytkavičy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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