Slonim Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Slonim
The earliest record is of a wooden fort on the left bank of the Shchara river in the 11th century, although there may have been earlier settlement. The area was disputed between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kievan Rus' in early history and it changed hands several times. In 1040, the Kievans won control of the area after a battle but lost Slonim to the Lithuanians in 1103. The Ruthenians retook the area early in the 13th century but were expelled by a Tatar invasion in 1241 and the town was pillaged. When, later in the year, the Tatars withdrew, Slonim became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania once again, in personal union with the Kingdom of Poland after the Union of Krewo of 1385. In 1532 King Sigismund I of Poland granted Slonim town rights. In 1558, King Sigismund II Augustus, in
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- ★Immaculate Conception church
- ★Transfiguration church
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