Smolany 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. It lies approximately 9 km south-east of Puńsk, 13 km north-west of Sejny, and 119 km north of the regional capital Białystok. From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship. In the village there is the Roman Catholic parish church of St. Isidore the Ploughman and the seat of the parish.

History

In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 69 and 7 homes, a primary school a brick-buit monastary church was built in 1839. in 1889 it was numbered at 253 people and 32 homes

Tourist attractions

Smolany in Literature

Bloody silvers - a crime-sensation novel by Robert M. Rynkowski

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