Vowpa

Vowpa[a] (Belarusian: Воўпа; Polish: Wołpa; Russian: Вольпа, romanized: Volpa; Lithuanian: Volpos) is an agrotown in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, in western Belarus.

[3] At various times it was either a royal town of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or a private town of the Holszański and Sapieha families,[4] administratively located in the Wołkowysk County in the Nowogródek Voivodeship.

It was often visited by King Stephen Bathory during his stays in nearby Grodno.

[4] In 1643, Kazimierz Leon Sapieha received King Władysław IV Vasa in the town.

[5] In the interwar period, Wołpa, as it was known in Polish, was administratively located in the Grodno County in the Białystok Voivodeship of Poland.

Wołpa Synagogue, 1920, Second Polish Republic