Smolany | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sejny |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Puńsk |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 54.1833°N 36°W |
Population Total: | 105 [1] |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 16-515 [2] |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | BSE |
Smolany (; lt|Smalėnai) 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.[3] It lies approximately 9km (06miles) south-east of Puńsk, 130NaN0 north-west of Sejny, and 1190NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.
In the village there is the Roman Catholic parish church of St. Isidore the Ploughman and the seat of the parish.
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 69 and 7 homes, a primary school a brick-buit monastary church was built in 1839. in 1889 it was numbered at 253 people and 32 homes[4]
Bloody silvers - a crime-sensation novel by Robert M. Rynkowski[6]