Jeleniewo j is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship , is a voivodeship in northeastern Poland. It borders on Masovian Voivodeship to the west, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship to the northwest, Lublin Voivodeship to the south, the Belarusssian Voblasts of Grodno and Brest to the east, the Lithuanian Counties of Alytus and...

, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina

Gmina

The gmina is the principal unit of administrative division of Poland at its lowest uniform level. It is often translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2010 there were 2,479 gminas throughout the country...

 (administrative district) called Gmina Jeleniewo

Gmina Jeleniewo

Gmina Jeleniewo, is a rural gmina in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Jeleniewo, which lies approximately north of Suwałki and north of the regional capital Białystok....

. It lies approximately 14 kilometres (9 mi) north of Suwałki and 122 km (76 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.

The village has a population of 490.

History

Jeleniewo – at present the communal village, laid in you will tell suwalskim, on the rout Suwałki - The Rutka-sawmill. She came into being about 1770 . After 10 the years of the existence she was transformed in the city thanks to the reformist activity on these terrains Antoniego Tyzenhausa, then the administrator of royal economies on Lithuania. Jeleniewo lost quite quickly right municipal - because after about 30 years. The locality developed in spite this farther. The considerable development Suwałk just caused impoverishment of Jeleniewa and importing him to the function of the village. In years 1815-1829 the post track led from Warsaw to Petersburga by Jeleniewo.