Vawkavysk, Belarus

Belarus

Vawkavysk, Belarus carries 74 connections with 9042 other places across 10 topics, shaped above all by history and military conflict. Incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after 1239, the city later fell into the overlapping claims of Poland, Russia, and Sweden during the mid-17th-century upheavals known as The Deluge. It served as a detention and deportation point for prisoners of war under Red Army control until 1941. Its strongest co-connections run through Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus.