Blon

Coordinates: 53°31′44″N 28°10′38″E / 53.52889°N 28.17722°E / 53.52889; 28.17722
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Blon
Блонь
Blon is located in Belarus
Blon
Blon
Coordinates: 53°31′44″N 28°10′38″E / 53.52889°N 28.17722°E / 53.52889; 28.17722
CountryBelarus
RegionMinsk Region
DistrictPukhavichy District
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)
A bus stop for Blon (central)

Blon (Belarusian: Блонь; Russian: Блонь; Polish: Błoń) is an agrotown in Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Blon selsoviet.[1]

History[edit]

Historically Blon (Błoń) belonged to Igumensky Uyezd in the Russian Empire, which was earlier part of Minsk Powiat [pl] in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is associated with Jesuit priest and poet Józef Baka, who established there a Jesuit monastery in about 1745 and a wooden church of John the Baptist around 1748. After his death, it was passed to the Jesuit order, and after the suppression of the Jesuits the properties were seized by a Poniński and later passed to Ossowskis of Dołęga coat of arms.[2] In 1863, they were sequestrated as a punishment for taking part in the January Uprising, and in 1868, they were sold to a civil official, Bończ-Osmołowski (Иосиф Александрович Бонч-Осмоловский), from which lands the properties of włościans (pl:włościanin, a land-owning peasant) were separated, leaving about 2,250 morgen of arable land.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2003). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Мінская вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 370. ISBN 985-458-054-7.
  2. ^ Wincenty A. Sułkowski, Kartka z dziejow kosciola katolickiego w Rosyi, 1889, p.142
  3. ^ Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I, p.249