Skip to main content

Village Goszewo

The village of Goszewo was mentioned in 1793, a village in the Chomsk earldom, Kobrin County, Brest Voivodeship. There were 46 houses, 326 inhabitants. There was an estate near the village. The villagers had 11 swaths, 24 morgs of land, for which they paid 279 zloty, 21 grosz taxes. Since 1795 the village was part of the Russian Empire. The village is marked on the military topographical map of the Russian Empire in 1843-1863:

Village Horawica

As we can see on the map, there is nothing on the place of today’s village. But on the single-sheet map we can already see a settlement: From 1921 to 1939 as part of Poland, the village is marked on the WIG map: It was part of the Lelików commune of Kamien-Koszyrski district, had 18 households. Since 1939 it was a part of BSSR. From 15.01.1940 in Dywyn district, Brest region, from 12.

Village Halik

The village of Halik is probably very closely connected with the history of the Dnieper-Bugs Canal, which in its time helped the settlement to grow into a village. The village of Halik is marked on the military topographic map of the Russian Empire of 1846-1863: From written sources, the village is mentioned in 1858, Wolowiel volost, part of the Jamniki rural community, Kobryn district, Grodno province. It was part of the Ludwinowo estate of the landowner Kalikst Orzeszko, and there were 26 revision souls (state villagers) in the village.