Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Filipów (Polish pronunciation: [fiˈlipuf]; Lithuanian: Pilypavas^[1]) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.^[2] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Filipów. It lies approximately 24 km (15 mi) north-west of Suwałki and 124 km (77 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok.

Filipów
Village
Filipów
Coordinates: 54°10′50″N 22°37′15″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Podlaskie Voivodeship
County	Suwałki
Gmina	Filipów
Population	1,814

Formerly a town, Filipów had a city rights from 1570 to 1870, when, as many other former towns in Poland, it lost this status after the January Uprising. It was a site of Battle of Filipów in 1656.

There was a Jewish COmmunity in Filipów; 75 years after 1939 the community Jewish Torah Scroll was recovered ^[3]