Country Poland Gmina Filipów Local time Saturday 6:20 PM | County Suwałki County Population 1,814 Voivodeship Podlaskie Voivodeship | |
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Filipów [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 kilometres (15 mi) north-west of Suwałki and 124 km (77 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok. In 2006 the village has a population of 1,814.
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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.
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Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA