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Braslaw

Braslaŭ District, Vitebsk Region

Names

Belarusian
Браслаў; Браслаў
Belarusian (Taraškievica)
Браслаў
Russian
Браслав; Браславль; Братислав; Бреслав
Polish
Brasław
Lithuanian
Breslauja
Ukrainian
Браслав
Yiddish
ברעסלעוו; Breslev; בראַסלעוו
English
Braslaw; Braslau; Braslav; Braslava; Braslawl-Zawelski; Braslaŭ; Brasław; Brasłaŭ; Breslauja; Breslav; Breslev
German
Braslau; Braslaŭ
Other spellings (NGA GNS, GeoNames):
Червоный Бор; Brastaw
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Old maps of this place — Russian 3-verst map, WIG 1:100,000 (1924–1939), German maps of 1914–1918 (Mapster)

Now: Braslaŭ District, Vitebsk Region

Affiliation by years

Parish, volost, district and estate as different sources give them, one source a row. Each source speaks of its own year and they may disagree.

YearsParishVolost; districtEstateSource
1919–1921Brasław powiat, Wilno VoivodeshipWikidata
1921–1945Браслаў (гміна); Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd, Vilna GovernorateWikidata

Indexes of metric books

Baptisms, marriages and deaths transcribed by volunteers (Geneteka of the Polish Genealogical Society), with the years transcribed. Search by surname on their site.

Extraordinary State Commission files, 1944–1945

Files of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission on the occupiers' crimes: witness interviews, lists of the killed and of those deported to Germany (NARB fond 1569, digital copies from GARF, scans online). The 1944 district is the one with the nearest district seat, so near a district border look at the neighbouring one too.

Браславский район (1944)

Files on the whole region — Полоцкая область (2)

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego

Polish geographical dictionary of 1880–1902: gmina, parish, number of households, owners. The link opens the page scan.

Where it is mentioned

Fonds, inventories and files whose titles contain the place name. Several places may share a name — check the uezd and volost.

All records mentioning it: 234in the search, with filters by archive, kind of document and years

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Links

Place data from Wikidata (CC0 licence), where it can also be corrected.