Editing Slonim (section)

===Late modern period===
[[Image:Słonim, Rynak, Bernardynski. Слонім, Рынак, Бэрнардынскі (1930-39).jpg|thumb|left|Polish Słonim in the 1930s, market at Bernardyńska Street before [[World War II]]]]
The [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] was dismantled in [[Partitions of Poland|a series of three "partitions"]] in the second half of the 18th century and divided among its neighbours, [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]], [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Austria]] and [[Russian Empire]] which took the largest portion of the territory. Slonim was in the area annexed by Russia in 1795. Administratively it was part of the Slonim Governorate until 1797, [[Vilna Governorate]] until 1801 and [[Grodno Governorate]] until [[World War I]]. In 1897 it was the fourth largest city of the governorate after the leading cities of [[Białystok]], [[Grodno]] and [[Brest, Belarus|Brześć]].
[[File:Słonim, Bernardynskaja. Слонім, Бэрнардынская (V. Pikiel, 1931).jpg|thumb|Pre-war Polish county office]]
Russian control lasted until 1915, when the German army captured the town. After the [[First World War]], the Slonim area was disputed between the [[Soviet Union]] and the newly recreated state of [[Poland]]. The town suffered badly in the [[Polish-Soviet war of 1920]]. It was ceded by the Bolsheviks to Poland in the 1921 [[Peace of Riga]] and became a part of [[Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–39)|Nowogródek Voivodeship]] of the [[Second Polish Republic]].

Slonim was one of the many towns in Poland that had a significant Jewish population. The imposing Great Synagogue, built in 1642, survived the destruction and brutal Nazi liquidation of the [[Słonim Ghetto]] with 10,000 Jews massacred in 1942 alone. The 10 small synagogues around the Great Synagogue called Stiblach did not survive.