Lepel

1. Town in Belarus: 

Lyepyel or Lepel (Belarusian: Лепель, romanized: Liepieĺ; Russian: Лепель, IPA: [ˈlʲepʲɪlʲ]; Polish: Lepel; Yiddish: ליעפּליע, romanized: Li'epli'e) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus, located near Lyepyel Lake on the Vula River.

It serves as the administrative center of Lyepyel District. 

Its population in the 1998 census was 19,400. As of 2023, it has a population of 17,182.[

There are three theories about the origin of the name Lepel. 

The first is that the name 'Lepel' come from the word "lepene" which means "lake between the lime-groves".

The second is that the name comes from the Belarusian word "лепей" meaning "the best place to live in".

The third theory for the name Lepel is that it derives from the Belarusian word "ляпiць" meaning "well-developed pottery".

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2. A surname:

Rafał Lepel (born 1990) is a retired Polish biathlete.

He competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2012 in Ruhpolding, in 10 km sprint.

He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, in the sprint contest.

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Lepel (1774 - 1840) was a Prussian major general.

His parents came from the von Lepel family, a noble family from Pommerania.

He had four siblings - Dietrich (1767–1815), Catharina (1769–1833), Wilhelmine (1781–1795) and Adolph (1783–1847). 

He served as adjutant to Prince Henry of Prussia (1781-1846), younger brother of Frederick William III of Prussia.

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3. A male given name:

Sir Lepel Henry Griffin, KCSI (1838 – 1908) was a British administrator and diplomat during the British Raj period in India. He was also a writer.

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4. Dutch children's film

Lepel (English translation: Spoon) is a 2005 Dutch children's film. 

The film received a Golden Film for 100,000 visitors.

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5. Lepel Republic

The Lokot Autonomy was an autonomous republic on the territory of the Central Russian oblasts of Bryansk, Oryol and Kursk from July 1942 to August 1944.

Germans transferred up to 30 thousand persons (10-11,000 of them were brigade members) to the Lepel area of Vitebsk in Belarus by the end of August 1943.

From the end of August 1943, Kaminski tried to set up a new "Lepel Republic" in the Lepel area, which met with strong opposition from the local population.

Partisans overran this area, and the brigade was involved in heavy combat for the rest of the year.

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