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13-642: Zasław may refer to: Historical name for Zasłaŭje , a historic town in Minsk Province, Belarus Historical name for Iziaslav (also Zaslav ), Ukraine Zasław concentration camp , a Nazi concentration camp in Zasław (now part of Zagórz), Poland Neal Zaslaw (born 1939), American musicologist See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Zaslaw Zaslav (disambiguation) , alternative spelling Zasławski family Topics referred to by

26-585: A colonization-type settlement in sparsely populated lands, particularly by Cossacks in Cossack Hetmanate , see " Sloboda Ukraine ". Initially, the settlers of such sloboda were freed from various taxes and levies for various reasons, hence the name. Freedom from taxes was an incentive for colonization . By the first half of the 18th century, this privilege was abolished, and slobodas became ordinary villages , shtetls , townlets , suburbs. Some slobodas were suburban settlements, right behind

39-755: A part of the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire after the Second Partition of Poland in 1793. Soviet power was established in November 1917. German occupation lasted from February to December 1918. In 1919, the town became a part of the Byelorussian SSR . Polish occupation lasted from July 1919 to July 1920. This district center was under German occupation from 28 June 1941 to 4 July 1944. In 1939, Jews comprised 9% of

52-452: A town district of people free of the power of boyars . Often these were settlements of tradesmen and artisans, and were named according to their trade, such as the yamshchiks ' sloboda ( Russian : ямская слобода , yamskaya sloboda  [ ru ] ) and smiths ' sloboda . The German Quarter in Moscow ( nemetskaya sloboda ) was set up to house foreigners. Often a sloboda was

65-520: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Zas%C5%82a%C5%ADje According to chronicles, Zaslawye was founded in 985 by Vladimir the Great . He sent his wife Rogneda to live in Zaslawye with their son Iziaslav of Polotsk , the founder of the princely house of Polotsk . The town is mentioned in historical writings as Izyaslavl, which led to

78-580: Is situated in north-western suburb of Minsk . It is part of its urban area and one of its main towns along with Fanipol and Machulishi . Considering that the Belarusian capital Minsk, a center of Minsk Raion , is administratively separated from Zaslawye, it is still the most populated settlement of the proper raion . Th town is located near the large Zaslawskaye reservoir , often called the Minsk sea. All historical attractions of Zaslawye are situated in

91-401: The 18th century; a small skansen of a traditional wooden tavern, a blacksmith workshop, storehouse and steam mill. Sloboda A sloboda was a type of settlement in the history of Belarus , Russia and Ukraine . The name is derived from the early Slavic word for ' freedom ' and may be loosely translated as 'free settlement'. In the history of Russia, a sloboda was a settlement or

104-457: The city wall. Many of them were subsequently incorporated into cities, and the corresponding toponyms indicate their origin. The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary relates that by the end of the 19th century a sloboda was a large village with more than one church, a marketplace, and volost administration, or a village-type settlement of industrial character, where the peasants have little involvement in agriculture . The term

117-522: The current name, Zaslawye. In the beginning of Middle Ages, the town was a centre of the Principality of Izyaslavl . In the 11th century, the town was heavily fortified. Much of the town's territory has been designated for archaeological preservation now. In the modern days, the town built its outdoor statue of Rogneda and Izyaslav. During the period of Reformation , the town was a nest for followers of Calvinism and Socinianism . The town became

130-678: The downtown not far from the Belarus Railway Station . The most interesting of them are the Zamechek Castle , which is an archaeological site of the Zaslawye town of the 10 – 12th centuries; the Val Site , which includes town ramparts and the fortified Savior Transfiguration Church (primary Calvinist church which was built from 1577 onward and is still in fair preservation); the Phara St Mary Church of

143-496: The ghetto building. On September 29, around 100 Jews, mostly women, children, and elderly people, were taken on horse carts out of the ghetto under the pretext of future resettlement to Minsk. They were all shot in a pit in the forest near the village of Sloboda . For a month following the liquidation of the ghetto, 35 Jewish women were kept in one of the houses on Bazarnaya Street. They were used for different kinds of forced labor until they were all shot on October 29, 1941. Zaslawye

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156-500: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Zasław . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zasław&oldid=1077451136 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

169-469: The town’s population, numbering 248 people. In October 1941, the Germans gathered 100 Jews from the town in a ghetto (a building formerly occupied by Soviet border guards). They were forbidden to go outside and didn’t receive food. The ghetto was surrounded by a fence and was supervised all day and night. On September 26 and 27, 1941, all Jewish men (at least 20 of them) were killed, 12 of whom were burned in

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