Żwikiele | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sejny |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Puńsk |
Coordinates: | 54.2°N 38°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 137 [1] |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 16-515 [2] |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | BSE |
Żwikiele (; lt|Žvikeliai) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[3] It lies approximately 8km (05miles) south-east of Puńsk, 120NaN0 north-west of Sejny, and 1210NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.
The noble village was located at the end of the 18th century in the Grodno district of the Trakai voivodeship in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[4]
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 104 and 16 homes and in 1895 it was numbered at 330 people and 40 homes.[5]