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Due to the wartime destruction, the village has few points of interest. Niemirow, a former town, has a market square, with some wooden houses. Also, there is St. Stanislaus church, originally built in 1620 to burn down in 1775. New church was built by the
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According to the 1921 census, the village was inhabited by 777 people, among whom 557 were Roman
Catholic, 71 Orthodox, and 149 Mosaic. At the same time, 591 inhabitants declared Polish nationality, 54 Belarusian and 132 Jewish. There were 120 residential buildings in the village.
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existed here. Archaeological findings proved that both
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Niemirow also has a gate with a bell tower (1823), and near the village there is the so-called Castle Hill, with a medieval gord, which once guarded
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Russian authorities closed it, and unsuccessfully tried to convert it into an
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The border between the partitioning powers in the vicinity of Niemirów disappeared in 1807 and in 1815–1915 Niemirów belonged to the
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