Hajnowka

Hajnowk is a metropolis and a powiat seat in north-jap Poland with 21,442 inhabitants. It is the capital of Hajnowka County. The city is likewise amazing for its proximity to the Bialowieza Forest, the most important primaeval wooded area in Europe. Through Hajnowka flows the river Lesna Prawa. It is one of the centres of Orthodox faith and a extremely good centre of Belarusian culture in Poland. Belarusians comprised 26.4% of the town's population in 2002. It is one in all five Polish/Belarusian bilingual Gmina in Podlaskie Voivodeship regulated through the Act of 6 January 2005 on National and Ethnic Minorities and on the Regional Languages, which lets in certain gminas with widespread linguistic minorities to introduce a 2nd, auxiliary language for use in legit contexts alongside Polish.

As a town, it became based a while inside the 16^th century as a single house of a wooded area ward, with the aid of a sure Hajno, who turned into one of the royal officials protecting the Bialowieza Forest. In 1589 entire wooded area have become a personal belongings of the royal court and the variety of forest workers settled within the area started to grow. However, the wooded area safety prevented the vicinity from in your price range increase and so the village became limited to some of wood huts on the western end of the forest.