Jegliniec, Sejny County

See also: Jegliniec, Suwałki County

Jegliniec
Village
Jegliniec
Coordinates: 54°8′57″N 23°7′50″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie
County	Sejny
Gmina	Krasnopol
Population	119[1]
Postal code	16-503 [2]
Car plates	BSE

Jegliniec ([jɛˈɡliɲɛt͡s]; Lithuanian: Eglinė[3]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krasnopol, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[4]

From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.

History

Near the village there are relics of a Yotvingian settlement[5].

The noblee village in the Grodno region was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania[6].

In 1882 it was numbered at 58 people and 7 homes.[7]

According to the First General Population Census of 1921, the village of Jegliniec had 8 houses and 66 inhabitants. At that time, all inhabitants of the village declared Roman Catholicism. At the same time, the majority of the village inhabitants, 43 people, declared Lithuanian nationality, and the remaining 23 persons declared Polish nationality.

From 1954-1959, the village belonged to and was the seat of the authorities of the Jegliniec community, after it was abolished in the Kaletnik community. In 1975-1998, the village belonged administratively to the Suwałki Voivodeship.

References

1. "Population of Jegliniec village" (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-11-04.
2. "Official list of post codes" (PDF) (in Polish). October 2013. p. 388. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22.
3. VLKK 2002.
4. "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
5. Piotr, Skurzyński (2004). „Warmia, Mazury, Suwalszczyzna” Wyd. Sport i Turystyka. p. 393.
6. Вялікі гістарычны атлас Беларусі. Vol. 2. 2013. p. 86.
7. "Jegliniec (1)". 1882. p. 553.

Sources

• 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.