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SuwaÅki, city, Podlaskie wojewÃ³dztwo (province), extreme northeastern Poland. First chronicled as a village having a hermitage of the Camaldolese monks (1682â90), SuwaÅki received its town rights in 1715. In 1796 it came under Prussian influence and became a Russian garrison in 1897. The city, located on the banks of the Czarna HaÅcza River, was heavily damaged by German bombing in 1939.