Urban-type settlement in Brest Region, Belarus
Tsyelyakhany or Telekhany (; ) is an urban-type settlement in Ivatsevichy District, Brest Region, Belarus. It is situated in the historical region of Polesia by the Oginski Canal. As of 2024, it has a population of 3,701.
History.
Before 1939 it was part of the Interwar Poland, the seat of Gmina Telechany, Powiat Kosówski, Polesie Voivodship.
During World War II, the Jewish community was massacred by a cavalry detachment of SS in August 1941, according to the memoirs of Bogdan Mielnik, a Polish resident of Telekhany.
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