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{{Infobox settlement
|name                = Kachychy
|native_name         = {{native name|be|Качычы}}
|settlement_type     = Village
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|subdivision_type   = Country
|subdivision_name   = [[Belarus]]
|subdivision_type1   = [[Regions of Belarus|Region]]
|subdivision_name1   = [[Grodno Region]]
|subdivision_type2   = [[Districts of Belarus|District]]
|subdivision_name2   = [[Karelichy District]]
|coordinates         = {{coord|53|32|56|N|26|06|34|E|display=inline}}
|pushpin_map=Belarus
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|timezone    = [[Moscow Time|MSK]]
|utc_offset  = +3
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'''Kachychy''' ({{langx|be|Качычы|Kačyčy}}; {{langx|ru|Качичи|Kachichi}}; {{langx|pl|Kaczyce}}) is a village in [[Karelichy District]], [[Grodno Region]], [[Belarus]]. Since 2007, it has been part of Malyushychy [[selsoviet]];<ref>{{cite web |title=Решение Гродненского областного Совета депутатов от 28.12.2007 г. № 56 «О решении вопросов административно-территориального устройства Кореличского района» |url=https://pravo.by/pdf/2008-38/2008-38(005-016).pdf |website=pravo.by}}</ref> previously it was under district administration.<ref name="enc">{{cite book |last1=Gaponenko |first1=Irina Olegovna |title=Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць |date=2004 |location=Minsk |publisher=Тэхналогія |page=242 |isbn=985-458-098-9}}</ref>
== History ==
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In [[History of Poland (1918–1939)|the interwar period]], the village was situated in the [[Karelichy]] Commune in Nowogródek County of the [[Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939)|Nowogródek Voivodeship]] in the [[Second Polish Republic]]. After the [[Soviet invasion of Poland]] in 1939, the village became part of the [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic]]. In the years 1941–1944, it was under German occupation. Then the village was again part of the Byelorussian SSR. From 1991, it became part of the Republic of Belarus.
=== Battle of Rowiny ===
In January 1945, the battle of Rowiny between the [[Home Army]] and the [[NKVD]] internal troops took place in this area. 89 Poles, soldiers of the "Tur" and "Grom" units of the Self-Defense of the Vilnius Land were killed. They were buried near Kachychy. In October 2021, the tombstone was devastated, and in July 2022 it was destroyed by the Belarusian authorities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Na Białorusi niszczą groby żołnierzy AK. Kolejne cmentarze usunięte|url=https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/zagranica/news-na-bialorusi-niszcza-groby-zolnierzy-ak-kolejne-cmentarze-us,nId,6143894 |date=8 July 2022}}</ref>
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[[Category:Villages in Belarus]]
[[Category:Populated places in Grodno Region]]
[[Category:Karelichy District]]