Lachva
| Лахва Lakhva |
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| town | |
 Location of Lakhva, within the Brest voblast |
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| Coordinates: 52°13′N 27°06′E / 52.217°N 27.100°E | |
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Country Subdivision |
Belarus Lakhva |
| First settled | 16th century |
| Elevation | 108 m (354 ft) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 2,100 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Lakhva (or Lachva, Lachwa) (Belarusian and Russian: Лахва, Polish: Łachwa, Yiddish: לאַכװע) is a small town in southern Belarus, with a population of approximately 2,100. Lakhva is considered to have been the location of one of the first, if not the first,Jewish ghetto uprisings of the Second World War.
Lakhva is located in the Luninets district of Brest Region, approximately 80 kilometres to the east of Pinsk and 200 kilometres south of Minsk. It lies on the Smierc River, to the north of the Pripet Marshes.
The town is located within Polesia, a marshy region that has historically been at the confluence of various empires and states. As such, Lakhva has, at various points in its history, been under Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Soviet, German, and Belarusian control.
The earliest mentions of Lakhva are contained in records from the late 16th century pertaining to the Estate of Łachwa, a large private estate in what was then the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The estate was held jointly by the Radziwiłłs and the Kiszkas, two powerful and significant Szlachta (noble) families of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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