Agrotown in Minsk Region, Belarus
Markava (; ) is an agrotown in Maladzyechna District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Markava selsoviet. It is located from Maladzyechna and from the capital Minsk. In 1999, it had a population of 772. In 2010, it had a population of 698.
History.
In the interbellum, Marków, as it was known in Polish, was first administratively located in the Nowogródek Voivodeship of Poland until 1922, and then the Wilno Voivodeship.
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, Marków was first occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, then by Nazi Germany until 1944. It was the site of a massacre of at least 500 Jews from the ghetto in Lebiedziew, committed by the German Security Police and Waffen-SS on 24 June 1942. In 1944, the settlement was re-occupied by the Soviet Union, which eventually annexed it from Poland in 1945.
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