Blon Explained

Blon
Native Name:Блонь
Settlement Type:Agrotown
Pushpin Map:Belarus
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Belarus
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Minsk Region
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Pukhavichy District
Timezone:MSK
Utc Offset:+3
Coordinates:53.5289°N 28.1772°W

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

Historically Blon (Błoń) belonged to Igumensky Uyezd in the Russian Empire, which was earlier part of 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 (a land-owning peasant) were separated, leaving about 2,250 morgen of arable land.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gaponenko . Irina Olegovna . Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Мінская вобласць . 2003 . Minsk . Тэхналогія . 370 . 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