Giby

Infobox Settlement
name = Giby
settlement_type = Village
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Podlaskie
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Sejny
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Giby
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population_total = 1000
population_footnotes = (approx.)
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Giby IPA-pl| [|'|g|i|b|y|] is a village in Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the borders with Belarus and Lithuania. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Giby.

The village has an approximate population of 1,000. It was established in 1594.

Today's Catholic church of St. Anne (1912) originally served Old Believers in Pogorzelec village, from where it was moved to Giby in 1982.

ee also

* Augustów chase 1945

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