Widugiery

Widugiery
Village
Widugiery
Coordinates: 54°12′N 23°20′E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie
County	Sejny
Gmina	Puńsk
Population	143 [1]
Postal code	16-515 [2]\
Car plates	BSE

Widugiery ([viduˈɡʲɛrɨ]; Lithuanian: Vidugiriai lit. middle of the forest[3]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[4] It lies approximately 12 kilometres (7 mi) south-east of Puńsk, 10 km (6 mi) north of Sejny, and 121 km (75 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.

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

History

The noble village was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the Trakai voivodeship.[5]

In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 175 and 18 homes and in 1893 it was numbered at 409 people and 43 homes.[6]

Tourist attractions

• wooden granary in homestead No. 1, 2nd half of the 19th century.[7]

References

1. "Population of Widugery village". Retrieved 2021-11-04.
2. "Official list of post codes" (PDF). October 2013. p. 1447. 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. Вялікі гістарычны атлас Беларусі (2nd ed.). Minsk. 2013.
6. "Widugiery". Warsaw. 1893. pp. 292–293.
7. "Rejestr zabytków nieruchomych – województwo podlaskie" (PDF). September 2024 [2018-04-04].

Sources

• VLKK (2002). "Atvirkštinis lietuvių kalboje vartojamų tradicinių Lenkijos vietovardžių formų sąrašas" (PDF). VLKK (in Lithuanian).