Filipów, Podlaskie Voivodeship
Filipów is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Filipów.
Formerly a town, Filipów had a city rights from 1570 to 1870, when, as many other former towns in Poland, it lost this status after the January Uprising. It was a site of Battle of Filipów in 1656.
There was a Jewish COmmunity in Filipów; 75 years after 1939 the community Jewish Torah Scroll was recovered