| Filipów | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Total Type: | |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Suwałki |
| Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
| Subdivision Name3: | Filipów |
| Coordinates: | 54.1806°N 22.6208°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Poland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Population Total: | 1814 |
Filipów (pronounced as /pl/; lt|Pilypavas) is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Filipów. It lies approximately 24km (15miles) north-west of Suwałki and 1240NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
Formerly a town, Filipów had a city rights from 1570 to 1870, when, as many other former towns in Poland, it lost this status after the January Uprising. It was a site of Battle of Filipów in 1656.
There was a Jewish COmmunity in Filipów; 75 years after 1939 the community Jewish Torah Scroll was recovered [2]