{{other|Blon (disambiguation)}} {{expand Belarusian|topic=geo|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Blon |native_name = Блонь |nickname = |settlement_type = Agrotown |image_skyline = Bloń. Блонь (2022) 02.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_flag = |image_seal = |pushpin_map = Belarus |pushpin_map_caption = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Belarus |subdivision_type1 = Region |subdivision_name1 = Minsk Region |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 =Pukhavichy District |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = |established_date = |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = |area_land_km2 = |area_water_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_note = |population_total = |population_metro = |population_density_km2 = |timezone = MSK |utc_offset = +3 |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|53|31|44|N|28|10|38|E|type:city_region:BY|display=title,inline}} |elevation_m = |postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |website = |footnotes= }} thumb|right|A bus stop for Blon (central) '''Blon''' ({{langx|be|Блонь}}; {{langx|ru|Блонь}}; {{langx|pl|Błoń}}) is an agrotown in Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Blon selsoviet.<ref name="enc">{{cite book |last1=Gaponenko |first1=Irina Olegovna |title=Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Мінская вобласць |date=2003 |location=Minsk |publisher=Тэхналогія |page=370 |isbn=985-458-054-7}}</ref>
==History== Historically Blon (Błoń) belonged to Igumensky Uyezd in the Russian Empire, which was earlier part of {{ill|Minsk Powiat|pl|Powiat miński (gubernia mińska)}} in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is associated with Jesuit priest and poet Józef Baka, who established there a Jesuit monastery in about 1745 and a wooden church of John the Baptist around 1748. After his death, it was passed to the Jesuit order, and after the suppression of the Jesuits the properties were seized by a Poniński and later passed to Ossowskis of Dołęga coat of arms.<ref>Wincenty A. Sułkowski, ''Kartka z dziejow kosciola katolickiego w Rosyi'', 1889, [https://books.google.com/books?id=avFIAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Bo%C5%84cza-Osmo%C5%82owski%22&pg=PA142 p.142]</ref> In 1863, they were sequestrated as a punishment for taking part in the January Uprising, and in 1868, they were sold to a civil official, Bończ-Osmołowski (Иосиф Александрович Бонч-Осмоловский), from which lands the properties of ''włościans'' (:pl:włościanin, a land-owning peasant) were separated, leaving about 2,250 morgen of arable land.<ref>''Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich'', Tom I, [http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_I/249 p.249]</ref>
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Category:Agrotowns in Belarus Category:Populated places in Pukhavichy district Category:Igumensky Uyezd
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