Grauże Nowe
Village in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
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Grauże Nowe [ˈɡrau̯ʐɛ ˈnɔvɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szypliszki, within Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[1]
Grauże Nowe | |
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Village | |
  Grauże Nowe Location within Poland | |
| Coordinates: 54°11′46″N 23°04′04″E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Podlaskie |
| County | Suwałki |
| Gmina | Szypliszki |
The towns nearest to it are Grauże Stare, Lipowo, Klonorejść, and Kaletnik. Its name probably comes from the Lithuanian word gražus, meaning 'beautiful'; 'nowe' means 'new' in Polish. The village is considered beautiful because of a scenic lake, Grauże; about 10 meters away from the lake is a resort.
Notable people
Notable people born in, living in, or otherwise associated with Grauże Nowe include:
- Stanisław Kimszal, anti-Nazi partisan in World War II[2] and leader of the Związek Inwalidów Wojennych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Association of Disabled War Veterans of the Republic of Poland) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship from 1980[3] until his death in 2018,[4] born on 2 June 1924 in Grauże Nowe.
