Dzyatlava

Dziatlava or Dyatlovo is a town in Belarus in the Grodno oblast, about 165 km southeast of Grodno. The population was 7,700 in 2016.

Dziatlava was first referenced in documents from 1498, when it was granted by the King of Poland John I Albert to Prince Konstanty Ostrogski of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, who later built a wooden castle there. In the 17th century the settlement was owned by Lew Sapieha, who ordered a Catholic church to be erected on the main city square. The church was consecrated in 1646, renovated after a fire in 1743 and still stands. During the Great Northern War of the anti-Swedish alliance, Peter I of Russia visited Dzyatlava and stayed there for a week in January 1708. In the 18th century, the town was owned by Polish magnate Stanisław Sołtyk, who built a Baroque residence there in 1751. After the partitioning of Poland, until the aftermath of World War I, the town was within the Russian Empire, in the Province of Grodno, district of Slonim.

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