Historical background

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, …

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The Grand Lithuanian Highway

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, …

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The old and historic tombstones

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 …

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