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Tykocin is a small town in north-eastern Poland, with 1,800 inhabitants (1998), located on the Narew river. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1702x1200, 1507 KB) Summary autor: Stimoroll tytuÅ‚: KoÅ›ciół pod wezwaniem ÅšwiÄ™tej Trójcy w Tykocinie Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Tykocin ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1702x1200, 1507 KB) Summary autor: Stimoroll tytuÅ‚: KoÅ›ciół pod wezwaniem ÅšwiÄ™tej Trójcy w Tykocinie Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Tykocin ... Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Commons or Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Narew (Belarusian: На́раў) is a river in western Belarus and north-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula river. ...

It is situated in the Podlasie Voivodship (since 1999), but previously fell under the Bialystok Voivodship (1975-1998). The Podlasie Voivodship (in Polish województwo podlaskie) is an administrative and local government region or voivodship of north-eastern Poland. ... Polish: województwo białostockie) - a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Podlasie Voivodship. ...

A baroque synagogue built in 1642, one of the best preserved in Poland from that period, is a major tourist attraction. A synagogue (בית כנסת beit knesset in Hebrew meaning a house of assembly or שול shul in Yiddish) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ... Events January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. ...

External links

• Tykocin on the map
• Tykocin Synagogue photos
• Another page about the Synagogue