Lapy

Lapy is a metropolis in north-eastern Poland, in BiaLystok County, Podlaskie Voivodeship; the executive centre of the city-rural gmina Lapy. It is located inside the North Podlasie Lowland, at the river Narew. According to information from 31 December 2010, the city had 16,049 population. Situated here are the bankrupt Railway Fleet Repair Works, a dairy, and the sugar refinery closed in February 2008. Now, Lapy is a scientific and educational centre for the location of the previous Lapy county. The call 'Lapy' is of Masovian starting place, and it to begin with represented a soubriquet of the family, who based the agreement on Narew.

A legend hyperlinks the muse of the metropolis with the nobleman Lappa of the Lubicz coat of hands, who settled down here during the 15^th century Masovian colonisation. The first ancient data of these lands come from the early 13^th century. It is thought that in 1375 Plonka Koscielna changed into an impartial parish. Firstly Lapy changed into a backwater in which the gentry cultivated patriotic traditions. Soon as a result of the village's improvement, new settlements emerged on the japanese and the western banks of the river Narew, which become a water change direction from Suraz to Gdansk in 16^th and 17^th centuries, and after the WW II from Puszcza Bialowieska to Tykocin; and at the east side of the excessive road from Suraz to Plonka.