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Owing to a lost dispute about payment for the town's sewage treatment works, the town is financially crippled by debt. Mayor
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After the uprisings the town was deprived of its privileges and neglected by Russia. The lack of railway development by the
Russian Empire prevented the town from developing industry. Sejny continued as a small provincial town and a local centre of trade and commerce. Nonetheless, the
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Lithuania. This resulted in the area being almost completely depopulated, with only a few of the indigenous Yotvingians surviving. The first written record of the area where the town now lies dates to 1385, noting an armed raid of the German knights from
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jail in Suwałki. Nevertheless, secret Polish education continued until the end of the occupation. In April 1940 the
Germans carried out mass arrests of 150 Poles, 10 of whom were publicly executed at the market square on April 24, 1940, and the
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has suggested that both sides exaggerated repressions they suffered during the uprising and its aftermath in order to elicit internal and external support. Sejny town at the time had approximately 2500 inhabitants.
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was established in 1826. The town continued to prosper, despite a major fire that had struck the city earlier that year. The population also grew rapidly. Prosperity declined in the latter part of the 19th century.
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Currently, Sejny is a notable centre of trade, production and tourism, with thousands of tourists visiting the town every year. A dairy and a cheese factory are located in the town, as well as numerous hotels.
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The town's market was located on a small hill overlooking the right bank of the river, near the original wooden manor. It was located right on the earlier trade route. South of the town, a new road leading to
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status were removed, but the town remained a notable centre of not only trade and commerce but also wood and furniture production, gaining profits from the nearby forests. In 1925, Sejny became part of the
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The 1930s saw the development of the town and the construction of new residential buildings and workplaces. Sejny was part of Poland "B", that is, it was located in a poorer part of Poland.
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granted the town the privilege of organizing a market and fair once a week. This helped the monks to repopulate the town with new Polish settlers, mostly from over-populated
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was started and most probably a hospital. The monastery was being constantly expanded, becoming one of the most notable examples of a fortified monastery in
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that the Polish
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and destroyed school libraries. Poles managed to organize secret teaching, but soon the
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was created and the new settlement received significant income from trading. The founder of the town financed a
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in 1863. Sejny was one of the sites of
Russian executions of Polish insurgents during the January Uprising. There is a memorial at the place of the executions.
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in 1422, Teutonic-Lithuanian border was determined, people began to return to the forests in the area. The territory formed part of the
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military administration, but Germany planned this area to be one of the puppet states in Central Europe in accordance with their
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that had arrived in the area in the first millennium. There was ongoing strife for the area since the 13th century between the
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put an end to the prosperity, as the town was pillaged by several armies in a row. The soldiers also carried two consecutive
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bi-weekly. Lithuanians constituted 7.9% (474) of the city's inhabitants in 2002 and 20.2% (4,271) of the population in the
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concentration camps, where most of them died. Two priests survived the concentration camps and the war: one, who also held
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club is Pomorzanka Sejny. It competes in the lower leagues.
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1323:Only a year later, the town was captured by the
1251:Sejny under German occupation during World War I
2212:"Kovų dėl lietuviškų pamaldų klausimu. V dalis"
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2010:Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija
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2134:"Tajne nauczanie podczas II Wojny Światowej"
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2349:"Pomorzanka Sejny - strona klubu"
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1508:Recent period and modern Sejny
1368:In 1925 the bishopric and the
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1953:Poles Attacked By Lithuanians
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1301:Polish Military Organization
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2247:(in Polish). Archived from
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1936:September 27, 2007, at the
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2076:, Książka i Wiedza, 1995,
2004:(in Lithuanian). Vilnius:
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