Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Filipów
Filipów
Village
	Filipów
	Coordinates: 54°10′50″N 22°37′15″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie Voivodeship
County	Suwałki
Gmina	Filipów
Population	1,814

Filipów (Polish pronunciation: [fiˈlipuf]; Lithuanian: Pilypavas^[1]) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.^[2] 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.

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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. It was a site of Battle of Filipów in 1656.

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VLKK 2002.
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"Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.

VLKK (2002). "Atvirkštinis lietuvių kalboje vartojamų tradicinių Lenkijos vietovardžių formų sąrašas" (PDF). VLKK (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2023-09-30.

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[FOOTNOTEVLKK2002-1] [1]
VLKK 2002.

[TERYT-2] [2]
"Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.

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