Blon
Blon (; ; ) is an agrotown in Pukhavichy District, Minsk Region, Belarus. History Historically Błoń belonged to (Ihumeń is Chervyen now), Russian Empire, which was earlier part of , Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is associated with Jesuit priest and poet Józef Baka, who established there a Jesuit monastery in about 1745 and a wooden church of John the Baptist around 1748. After his death it was passed to the Jesuit order, and after the suppression of the Jesuits the properties were seized by a Poniński and later passed to Ossowskis of Dołęga coat of arms. In 1863 they were sequestrated as a punishment for taking part in the January Uprising and in 1868 they were sold to a civil official Bończ-Osmołowski (Иосиф Александрович Бонч-Осмоловский), from which lands the properties of włościans (:pl:włościanin, a land-owning peasant) were separated, leaving about 2250 morgen of arable land. References Agrotowns in Belarus Populated places in Pukhavichy District