Filipów | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Suwałki |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Filipów |
Coordinates: | 54.1806°N 22.6208°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 1814 |
Filipów (pronounced as /pl/; Lithuanian: Pilypavas) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Filipów. It lies approximately 24km (15miles) north-west of Suwałki and 1240NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
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.