Knyszyn

Infobox Settlement
name = Knyszyn


image_shield = POL Knyszyn COA.svg
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Podlaskie
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Mońki
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Knyszyn
area_total_km2 = 3.68
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 2835
population_density_km2 = auto
latd = 53 | latm = 18 | lats = 47 | latNS = N | longd = 22 | longm = 55 | longs = 3 | longEW = E
elevation_m =
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 19-120
website =

Knyszyn [IPA-pl|'|k|n|y|sz|y|n] is a town in north-eastern Poland, 16 miles north-west of Bialystok. It is situated in the Podlaskie Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Białystok Voivodeship (1975-1998) (1975-1998).

A part of Podlachia, originally it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It has been the property of Court Marshall of Lithuania Michael Glinski until it was confiscated and passed to Grand Chancellor of Lithuania Mikołaj Radziwiłł since 1507. In 1569 it was annexed by the Polish crown. In 1795 it was annexed to Prussia; in 1806 it was annexed to Russia, and in 1919 it returned to Poland. From 1939-1941 the Soviet Union controlled the area, and afterwards the German Nazis took control after expelling the Soviets from Poland, breaking the pact that the Germans and Soviets had signed.

It was King Sigismund II of Poland's favourite residence and he was buried there.

It had a relatively sizeable Jewish population until World War II which only around 50 of Knyszyn's Jews survived ( [http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Knyszyn/occupation.html] ).