Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship
Village in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
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Filipów (Polish pronunciation: [fiˈlipuf]; Lithuanian: Pilypavas[1]) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[2] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Filipów.
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  Filipów | |
| Coordinates: 54°10′50″N 22°37′15″E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship |  Podlaskie Voivodeship |
| County | Suwałki |
| Gmina | Filipów |
| Population | 1,814 |
Formerly a town, Filipów had a city rights from 1570 to 1870, when, as many other former towns in Poland, it lost this status after the January Uprising. It was a site of Battle of Filipów in 1656.
There was a Jewish COmmunity in Filipów; 75 years after 1939 the community Jewish Torah Scroll was recovered [3]
