:Iwye

{{Infobox settlement

|name = Iwye

|native_name = {{native name|be|Іўе}}

|nickname =

|settlement_type = Town

|image_skyline =Iŭje, Kaścielnaja. Іўе, Касьцельная (2010).jpg

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|image_caption =View of the town, August 2010

|image_flag = Flag of Iǔje.svg

|image_shield = Coat_of_Arms_of_Iŭje.svg

|flag_size = 150

|shield_size = 75

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|pushpin_map = Belarus

|pushpin_label_position = bottom

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Belarus

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Grodno Region

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Iwye District

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|established_title = First mentioned

|established_date = 1444

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|population_as_of = 2025

|population_footnotes = {{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}}

|population_note =

|population_total = 6,906

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|timezone = MSK

|utc_offset = +3

|coordinates = {{coord|53|55|N|25|46|E|region:BY|display=inline,title}}

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|postal_code_type = Postal code

|postal_code = 231337

|area_code = +375 1595

|blank_name = License plate

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Iwye{{efn|{{langx|be|Іўе|Iŭje}}, {{IPA|be|ˈiʊje|IPA}}; {{langx|ru|Ивье|Ivye}}, {{IPA|ru|ˈivʲjɪ|IPA}}; {{langx|lt|Yvija}}; {{langx|pl|Iwie}}; {{langx|yi|איוויע|Ivye}}.}} is a town and former shtetl in Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Iwye District.{{cite book |last1=Gaponenko |first1=Irina Olegovna |title=Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць |date=2004 |location=Minsk |publisher=Тэхналогія |page=217 |isbn=985-458-098-9}} It is located {{convert|158|km}} east of Grodno. It is a station on the railway line between Lida and Maladzyechna. The population of Iwye was 8,900 in 1995. As of 2025, it has a population of 6,906.

History

It town was the site of a dangerous rescue mission by the Bielski Brothers in late 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, as the area was occupied during Operation Barbarossa.

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