Jurgów
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Jurgów () is a village in the Spisz region of southern Poland, near the border with Slovakia and the town of Bukowina Tatrzańska, on the Białka river.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jurgów
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- Jurgów 1.jpg
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- Tatras seen from Jurgów
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- Poland
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- top
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- Country
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- Voivodeship
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- County
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- Tatra
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- Gmina
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- Bukowina Tatrzańska
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 7.68
- Settlement.population_total
- 903
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2005
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- CEST
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Jurgów () is a village in the Spisz region of southern Poland, near the border with Slovakia and the town of Bukowina Tatrzańska, on the Białka river.
==History== It was founded in 1546 on Vlach law in the possessions of the Niedzica Castle (also known as the Dunajec Castle). At that time it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, although the owner of the area was then a Polish magnate Olbracht Łaski. According to legend, the settler of the village was a highlander robber called Jurko, hence the name of the village. The documents from the period 1589-1595 related to the sale of the Niedzica possessions by Olbracht Łaski to György Horváth, the village is mentioned in Hungarian as Gyurgow. After the I World War in when the Austria-Hungary ceased to exist, the village became part of newly independent Poland. In 1939 when Nazi Germany and Slovakia invaded Poland it was occupied by Slovakia. After the war it returned in 1945 to Poland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jurgów” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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