Nyeharelaye or Negoreloe (; ; ) is an agrotown in Dzyarzhynsk District, Minsk Region, Belarus. Until 2009, it had the status of urban-type settlement.
Geography It is located on the river Peretut, southwest of Dzyarzhynsk and from Minsk.
History
Known from the 16th century as a post station on the Minsk-Navahrudak route, when it was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The settlement was part of the estates of the powerful Radziwiłł magnate family.Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom VII, Warszawa, 1886, p. 76 (in Polish) In the Second Partition of Poland, in 1793, it was annexed by the Russian Empire. In the early 19th century, the village passed to the Abłamowicz family and, in 1879, to renown Polish numismatist Emeryk Hutten-Czapski. From 1871, it had a railway station, which in 1921-1939 was a Soviet border station on the border with Poland. During World War II, the settlement was under German occupation from 1941 to 1944, during which the vast majority of the town's Jewish population was murdered.
Economics There is a hive manufacturing factory as well as a private furniture manufacturer.
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