Lipsk

Lipsk lies beside the Biebrza in the old lands of the Yotvingians, on the western edge of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. A village called Wola Lipska was recorded in 1533. In 1580 Stephen Báthory issued a privilege at nearby Grodno granting Lipsk Magdeburg town rights. It remained a royal town until Prussia annexed it in the Third Partition of the Commonwealth. Lipsk later entered the Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 became part of Congress Poland under Russian influence.