The origins of Tykocin are probably connected with a fortified settlement existing in that place from the 11th to the 14th c. Tykocin village was founded in the 14th-15th c. by a crossing on the Narew River. It was granted the municipal charter in 1425. In the second half of the 16th c. a strong fortress (the main arsenal of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth) was built there. Tykocin fortress was partly destroyed by Swedes in 1655. From 1795, Tykocin was part of the Prussian partition, from 1807 – the Duchy of Warsaw and from 1815 – Congress Poland.
During World War II, in September 1939, Tykocin became part of the Soviet occupation zone. In June 1941, the town was taken over by Germans. During heavy fighting 60% of the town's buildings were destroyed.
Tykocin
[Yiddish, Tiktin]
A town in the Podlasie voivodship in the Bialystok powiat (district); it was granted its town charter in 1424-25.
The Jewish Community was founded in 1522, when ten families from Grodno were brought as settlers by the voivod of Wilno and Troki, Olbracht Gasztold. They were granted the right to found a cemetery and build a synagogue, as well as market stalls(...)
Tykocin
[Yiddish, Tiktin]
A town in the Podlasie voivodship in the Bialystok powiat (district); it was granted its town charter in 1424-25.
The Jewish Community was founded in 1522, when ten families from Grodno were brought as settlers by the voivod of Wilno and Troki, Olbracht Gasztold. They were granted the right to found a cemetery and build a synagogue, as well as market stalls(...)
Tykocin
[Yiddish, Tiktin]
A town in the Podlasie voivodship in the Bialystok powiat (district); it was granted its town charter in 1424-25.
The Jewish Community was founded in 1522, when ten families from Grodno were brought as settlers by the voivod of Wilno and Troki, Olbracht Gasztold. They were granted the right to found a cemetery and build a synagogue, as well as market stalls(...)
Tykocin
[Yiddish, Tiktin]
A town in the Podlasie voivodship in the Bialystok powiat (district); it was granted its town charter in 1424-25.
The Jewish Community was founded in 1522, when ten families from Grodno were brought as settlers by the voivod of Wilno and Troki, Olbracht Gasztold. They were granted the right to found a cemetery and build a synagogue, as well as market stalls(...)
Warsaw
[Yiddish, Varshe, Varsha, Varshoy]
The earliest Jewish settlement in Warsaw dates back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In the first half of the fifteenth century, Warsaw had a "Jewish Street", synagogue and cemetery. The first mention of Jews being expelled from the city dates back to 1483. In 1527, Sigismund I the Old confirmed Warsaw's de non tolerandis Judaeis privilege,(...)
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