Stoubtsy or Stoŭbcy, also known as Stouptsy (Stoŭpcy) and Stolbtsy (Belarusian: Стоўбцы, Стоўпцы, pronounced [ˈstowpt͡sɪ]; Russian: Столбцы [stɐlbˈt͡sɪ]; Polish: Stołpce; Yiddish: Steibtz) is a town in Minsk Province, Belarus, an administrative center of the Stowbtsy raion (district). It is located at , at the Nieman river. The population is near 16,000.
It was founded in the first half of the 16th century. In 1582 Stolbtsy went into the ownership of the Radziwiłłs. For a long time it was a shtetl with significant Jewish population.
In August 1924, while Stoŭbtsy was part of the Second Polish Republic, the town was the site of a Soviet-Polish border incident in which a company of Soviet raiders attacked its police station and government building in order to free two imprisoned communist activists (see Soviet raid on Stołpce).[1]
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