Widugiery | |
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 43°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 143 [1] |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 16-515 [2] \ |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | BSE |
Widugiery (; lt|Vidugiriai lit. middle of the forest) 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 12km (07miles) south-east of Puńsk, 100NaN0 north 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.[4]
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 175 and 18 homes and in 1893 it was numbered at 409 people and 43 homes.[5]