Blon
{{other|Blon (disambiguation)}}
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Blon ({{langx|be|Блонь}}; {{langx|ru|Блонь}}; {{langx|pl|Błoń}}) is an agrotown in Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Blon selsoviet.{{cite book |last1=Gaponenko |first1=Irina Olegovna |title=Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Мінская вобласць |date=2003 |location=Minsk |publisher=Тэхналогія |page=370 |isbn=985-458-054-7}}
History
Historically Blon (Błoń) belonged to Igumensky Uyezd in the Russian Empire, which was earlier part of {{ill|Minsk Powiat|pl|Powiat miński (gubernia mińska)}} in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is associated with Jesuit priest and poet Józef Baka, who established there a Jesuit monastery in about 1745 and a wooden church of John the Baptist around 1748. After his death, it was passed to the Jesuit order, and after the suppression of the Jesuits the properties were seized by a Poniński and later passed to Ossowskis of Dołęga coat of arms.Wincenty A. Sułkowski, Kartka z dziejow kosciola katolickiego w Rosyi, 1889, [https://books.google.com/books?id=avFIAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Bo%C5%84cza-Osmo%C5%82owski%22&pg=PA142 p.142] In 1863, they were sequestrated as a punishment for taking part in the January Uprising, and in 1868, they were sold to a civil official, Bończ-Osmołowski (Иосиф Александрович Бонч-Осмоловский), from which lands the properties of włościans (:pl:włościanin, a land-owning peasant) were separated, leaving about 2,250 morgen of arable land.Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I, [http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_I/249 p.249]