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Bliżyn
Sign in to saveBliżyn is a village in Skarżysko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bliżyn. It lies on the Kamienna river and Bliżyn Reservoir, approximately west of Skarżysko-Kamienna and north of the regional capital Kielce.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bliżyn
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_shield
- POL gmina Bliżyn COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- MOs810 WG 25 2024 (Kielce-Wisła) Saint Louis church in Bliżyn (1) 04.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Saint Louis church in Bliżyn
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Świętokrzyskie
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Skarżysko
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Bliżyn
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Poland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.population_total
- 2000
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- CEST
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bliżyn
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Gmina Bliżyn
- Population
- 1653
- Elevation
- 265
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Gmina Bliżyn
- Image
- Blizyn kosciol sw ludwik by sH.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bliżyn
- postal code
- 26-120
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- male population
- 774
- female population
- 879
- native label
- Bliżyn
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Encyclopedic overview
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Bliżyn is a village in Skarżysko County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Bliżyn. It lies on the Kamienna river and Bliżyn Reservoir, approximately west of Skarżysko-Kamienna and north of the regional capital Kielce.
==History== thumb|left|Saint Sophia chapel The village was first mentioned in 1410, when King Władysław II Jagiełło spent a night there on his way to the battle of Grunwald. It was a private village of Polish nobility, including the Karwowski family, administratively located in the Opoczno County in the Sandomierz Voivodeship in the Lesser Poland Province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bliżyn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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