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Coordinates: | |||
Country | Poland | ||
Voivodeship | Pomeranian | ||
County | Chojnice | ||
Gmina | Brusy | ||
Area | |||
• Total | 5.1 km2 (2 sq mi) | ||
Population (2006) | |||
• Total | 4,582 | ||
• Density | 898.4/km2 (2,326.9/sq mi) | ||
Postal code | 89-632 | ||
Website | http://brusy.pl/ |
Brusy [ˈbrusɨ] (Kashubian: Brusë ;German: Bruß) is a town located in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship. In the 19th century it was an important centre of the Kashub movement.
Brusy became a town in 1988.
In World War II Brusy was the location of the Nazis' Brusy concentration camp – a sub-camp of the concentration camp at Stutthof.
There is a Kashubian Secondary School in the town.