Porazava

Porazava was a royal town in the Vawkavysk district of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Known from the fifteenth century, it received Magdeburg rights from King Sigismund I in 1523, giving its townspeople a recognised framework for local government. In 1616 the town was granted a coat of arms depicting a woman clothed with the sun, a figure drawn from the Book of Revelation. Its privileges and seal expressed the identity of a small market town within the larger lands of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.