This was at a time when Podlasie was overgrown with dense forests. Anyone descended from crossing the wilderness trail; they wandered long before they could reach the human settlement. Many adventurers died in such expedition. One winter the ruler of Lithuania – Kiejstut, in the company of the troop of excellent knights, …
Sokolow is the oldest city in the historical region of Podlasie with long and interesting history. The municipal rights under German Sroda law were provided to Sokolow on 20th April, 1424 from Witold – the Grand Prince of Lithuania. Mikolaj Sepienski, the trusted secretary, diplomat and advisor of the prince, …
The historical trail of Sokolow was specified with the authentic most important events over nearly six centuries of the city on the Cetynia River. It is commemorated with the 15 plaques illustrating the rich and beautiful history and dramatic periods in the history of the city and its residents. It …
The Grand Lithuanian Highway was one of the most important trade and postal routes of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries It run through Sulejowek, Okuniew, Stanisławow, Dobre, Liw, Wegrow, Sokolow Podlaski, Drohiczyn, Perlejewo, Ciechanowiec, Rudka, Bransk, Bielsk Podlaski, Bialystok, Czarna Białostocka, Sokolka, Kuznica, Grodno, Druskienniki, …
The cemetery at Szopen Street was probably established in the middle or at the beginning of the 1st half of the nineteenth century. The oldest tombstone dates from 1864. On the cementry there are the graves of the Raczynscy family from 1875, Stanislaw Holder-Egger 1877, Maria Bonkowska from the Wierzejska …