Kleszczele
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Kleszczele k is a town in Hajnówka County
, Podlaskie Voivodeship
, north-eastern Poland
. Prior to 1999, it was in Białystok Voivodeship (1975–1998).
The Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirschbein was born in Kleszczele in 1881.
Hajnówka County
Hajnówka County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Podlaskie Voivodeship, north-eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest...
, Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Podlaskie Voivodeship , is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusssian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and...
, north-eastern Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. Prior to 1999, it was in Białystok Voivodeship (1975–1998).
The Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirschbein was born in Kleszczele in 1881.