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Suwałki: parish church of St. Alexander
Suwałki: parish church of St. Alexander Parish church of St. Alexander, Suwałki, Pol.

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Suwałki, city, Podlaskie województwo (province), extreme northeastern Poland. First chronicled as a village having a hermitage of the Camaldolese monks (1682–90), Suwałki received its town rights in 1715. In 1796 it came under Prussian influence and became a Russian garrison in 1897. The city, located on the banks of the Czarna Hańcza River, was heavily damaged by German bombing in 1939. In 1940 it became the site of a Nazi concentration camp and headquarters for the German Gestapo in eastern Poland. After World War II the city was rebuilt, including the restoration of private homes and historic buildings. Suwałki has a regional museum containing religious articles dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. The city’s economy is based on food processing, lumber milling, textile weaving, and the production of building materials. Pop. (2011) 69,239.

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