Ivanava

Ivanava is a city within the Brest Region of Belarus, an administrative center of the Ivanava district. First referred to in the 14th century, first of all it turned into a village named Porkhovo. In 1423 it become granted via the king Wladysław Jagiełło to the cathedral in Lutsk. Renamed to Janow, in 1465 it became granted with city rights. A small city in Polesia, it shared the destiny of the area. On May sixteen, 1657 it turned into the seat of the martyrdom of Saint Andrzej Bobola. Annexed by using Russia in the course of the Partitions of Poland in 1795, the metropolis did now not expand tons,

broadly speaking due to the proximity of a whole lot extra populous town of Pinsk. At the cease of the 19th century it had circa 3000 inhabitants, mainly peasants and employees in a nearby minor fabric works. Between 1915 and 1918 occupied by way of Germany, in 1919 it was transferred to Poland. During the Polish-Bolshevik War it was in short occupied via the Russians between July and October 1920. After retaken by Poland, the metropolis changed into the centre of mobilization of Gen.