Town

Kosava

Ivacevičy District, Brest Region

155 files in the archives name Kosava. Among them: parish registers — 70, courts, investigations — 7, nobility, service records — 4.

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Names

Belarusian: Косава; Косава; Косава (горад)
Belarusian (Taraškievica): Косава; Косаў
Russian: Коссово; Косово
Polish: Kosów; Kossów; Kosów Poleski
Lithuanian: Kosava; Kosovas
Ukrainian: Косово
Yiddish: קאסעוו; Kosov; קאָסעוו
English: Kosava; Kosov; Kosov Polski; Kosovas; Kosow; Kossov; Kossovo; Kossuv; Kossów; Kosów Poleski
German: Kossawa; Kosava; Kossowo

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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: Ivacevičy District, Brest 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.

Years	Volost; district	Source
…–1795	Slonimskiy povet, Nowogródek Voivodeship	Wikidata
1795–1919	Slonimskij County, Grodno Governorate, Vilna Governorate-General	Wikidata
1940–1947	Kosaŭski district	Wikidata

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.

Geneteka: Kosów Poleskibaptisms 1752-1913 marriages 1752-1890 deaths 1797-1890

Estates

Коссово (Слонимский уезд) · files: 2

Estates whose files name this place:

Коссова (Слонимский уезд) · in files: 1

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.

Коссовский район (1944)

Документы по установлению и расследованию злодеяний, совершенных немецко-фашистскими захватчиками и их сообщниками на территории Коссовского района (акты, протоколы опросов свидетелей, поименные списки, заявления, фотографии) (29.12.1944 - 10.03.1945)

Files on the whole region — Брестская область (1)

Доклад Брестской областной комиссии содействия в работе ЧГК СССР об установлении и расследовании злодеяний и учете ущерба, причиненного немецко-фашистскими захватчиками народному хозяйству Брестской области, приложения к нему (1945)

Places of the parish (2)

Places the sources assign to the parish seated here.

Places nearby

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: 155in 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.