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Pruzhany ( , ) is a town
Town

A town is a type of human settlement ranging from a few to several thousand inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and is not always a matter of legal definition....
 in Brest Voblast
Brest Voblast

Brest Voblast or Brest Oblast is a province of Belarus with its Capital city being Brest, Belarus.Important cities within the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, Belarus, and Pinsk....
, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
. Pruzhany is the center of a district in Brest Region, Belarus. Its population is about 20.000 people. The town is located at the confluence of the Mukha River and the Vets Canal, which give the start to Mukhavets River.

hany has been known as Dabuchin since 1487. In the 16th century it belonged to the Italian queen Bona Sforza
Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza d'Aragona was a member of the House of Sforza who in 1518 became the second wife of Sigismund I of Poland.When her mother Isabella of Naples died in 1524, Bona succeeded to the titles Duchess of Bari and Princess of Rossano....
 of Poland.






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Pruzhany ( , ) is a town
Town

A town is a type of human settlement ranging from a few to several thousand inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and is not always a matter of legal definition....
 in Brest Voblast
Brest Voblast

Brest Voblast or Brest Oblast is a province of Belarus with its Capital city being Brest, Belarus.Important cities within the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, Belarus, and Pinsk....
, Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
. Pruzhany is the center of a district in Brest Region, Belarus. Its population is about 20.000 people. The town is located at the confluence of the Mukha River and the Vets Canal, which give the start to Mukhavets River.

History

Pruzhany has been known as Dabuchin since 1487. In the 16th century it belonged to the Italian queen Bona Sforza
Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza d'Aragona was a member of the House of Sforza who in 1518 became the second wife of Sigismund I of Poland.When her mother Isabella of Naples died in 1524, Bona succeeded to the titles Duchess of Bari and Princess of Rossano....
 of Poland. She brought Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 influence and development of trades in this part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest and most populous countries in 16th and 17th-century Europe, formed by a Union of Lublin of Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1569....
. In 1589, her daughter Anna granted a town charter and the coat of arms of Pruzhany (a blue snake swallowing a baby on a silver shield). The coat of arms was borrowed from that of the Sforza family of Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
. Pruzhany was a center of pottery trade at those times. In the mid 19th century a wealthy Polish landlord Walenty Szwykowski laid out a park and built a pretentious palace that can be seen today. The palace houses a rich collection on the history and arts of the region.

In 1941 the Nazis hoarded the Jews here to create a ghetto
Ghetto

A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure."...
. During January 28 - 31, 1943 the Nazis deported 10,000 Jews of Pruzhany to Auschwitz, via Birkenau
Birkenau

Birkenau may mean the following.* Birkenau , a municipality in the Odenwald located in the South of Hesse in Germany.* The German name for the Polish Brzezinka, known as the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II...
, where the men, women and children were ruthlessly and sadistically liquidated.

In 2003 the central part of the town was reconstructed to prepare the town for the national harvest festival “Dozhinki” in autumn 2003.

Pruzhany is the birthplace of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the world renown Torah scholar and Jewish leader.

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