Shchuchyn

Shchuchyn is a city within the Grodno Region of Belarus. It is the middle of Shchuchyn District. The population is sort of 15,000. The first regarded reputable written point out of Shchuchyn is recorded in 1436, but its foundation as a agreement dates returned to 1537, while 'Shchuchyn was cited in the Book of Acts of the Lithuanian Metrica, kept within the Governmental archive in Lithuania. Ownership of Shchuchyn surpassed from one noble circle of relatives to any other: The Radziwiłł family, then the Drutskiya-Liubetskis, the Scipions, and others ruled Shchuchyn in flip. In the fifteenth–18th centuries, Shchuchyn became a member of the Lida council of the Vilnius workplace of voivode.

In the primary half of of the 17th century, Shchuchyn changed into governed by the outsider marshal of the Lithuanian principality, Scipio de Campo. Shchuchyn turned into a mean-sized privately owned village in phrases of populace. A Catholic Monasterial Order became established 1726 in Shchuchyn by means of the decision of the Sejm. The Board of Shchuchyn become taken into consideration to be one in all the largest in Belarus.