{{Infobox settlement | name = Karelichy | settlement_type = [[List of urban-type settlements in Belarus|Urban-type settlement]] | image_skyline = Кореличи, Кореличский район, Гродненская область, Беларусь 21.jpg | image_shield = Kareličy Coat of Arms.gif | image_flag = Flag of Kareličy.svg | flag_size = 150 | shield_size = 75 | native_name = {{native name|be|Карэлічы}} | native_name_lang = by | subdivision_type2 = [[Districts of Belarus|District]] | subdivision_name2 = [[Karelichy District]] | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[Belarus]] | subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Belarus|Region]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Grodno Region]] |pushpin_map = Belarus |map_caption = Location of Karelichy in Belarus |coordinates = {{coord|53|34|N|26|08|E|region:BY|display=title,inline}} | population_total = 5,546 | population_as_of = 2025 | population_footnotes = <ref name="pop">{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_148168/|title=Численность населения на 1 января 2025 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2024 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250329210112/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_148168/|archive-date=29 March 2025|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref> |timezone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]] |utc_offset = +3 }}
'''Karelichy'''{{efn|{{langx|be|Карэлічы|Kareličy}}; {{langx|ru|Кореличи|Korelichi}}; {{langx|lt|Koreličiai}}; {{langx|pl|Korelicze}}; {{langx|yi|קארעליץ|Korelitz}}.}} is an [[urban-type settlement]] in [[Grodno Region]], in west-central [[Belarus]]. It serves as the administrative centre of [[Karelichy District]].<ref name="pop"/> As of 2025, it has a population of 5,546.<ref name="pop"/>
==History== [[File:Kareličy, Rynak-Paštovaja. Карэлічы, Рынак-Паштовая (1935).jpg|thumb|left|Market in {{circa|1935}}]] It was a possession of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], and later a [[private town]] of the [[Czartoryski]] and [[Radziwiłł]] families, administratively located in the [[Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)|Nowogródek Voivodeship]] of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].<ref name=sgk>{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom IV|year=1883|language=pl|location=Warszawa|pages=400–401}}</ref> The town was devastated by the [[Crimean Tatars]] in 1505 and [[Swedish Empire|Swedes]] in 1655.<ref name=sgk/> In 1784, King [[Stanisław August Poniatowski]] visited the town.<ref name=sgk/> French, Polish and Russian troops passed through the town in 1812.<ref name=sgk/>
The town was historically a center of a large Jewish community; its population in 1900 was 1,840.<ref>[http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-1944528 JewishGen.org]</ref>
In the [[interwar period]], it was administratively located in the [[Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939)|Nowogródek Voivodeship]] of Poland. Following the [[invasion of Poland]] in September 1939 at the beginning of [[World War II]], the town was first [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|occupied by the Soviet Union]] until 1941, then by [[Nazi Germany]] until 1944, and then re-occupied by the Soviet Union, and eventually annexed from Poland.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
== Notable people == * [[Ignacy Domeyko]] (from Niedźwiadka village in [[Karelichy district]]) * [[Itzhak Katzenelson]] * Karelitz family, [[Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz]], [[Nissim Karelitz]]{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} * [[Saul Adler]] * [[David Einhorn (poet)|David Einhorn]], Jewish writer and poet
== See also == * [[Mir Castle Complex]] * [[Mir, Belarus]]
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== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Kareličy|Karelichy}} * [http://www.radzima.org/pub/miesta.php?lang=en&miesta_id1=hrkakare Photos on Radzima.org]
{{Grodno Region}} {{Authority control}}
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