Kodeń

Also known as Kodeń (Poland)

Kodeń is a village in eastern Poland on the Bug River, which forms the border between Poland and Belarus. Administratively, it belongs to Biała County in Lublin Voivodeship. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Kodeń. It has approximately 1,580 inhabitants (as of 2021). The village is the site of a famous Marian shrine.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Kodeń
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Koden-080413-452.jpg
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Voivodeship
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Lublin
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Biała
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Gmina
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Kodeń
Settlement.pushpin_map: Poland
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.population_total: 1900

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Kodeń
Population: 1638
Image: Koden-080413-452.jpg

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Commons category: Kodeń
postal code: 21-509
native label: Kodeń
P8168: Solomon

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History
Points of interest
Our Lady of Kodeń in St-Anne Basilica
Church of the Holy Ghost
Other sites
References
External links

==History== thumb|left|Kodeń, 1872 The first written mention comes from the 16th century, stating a settlement existed at the same site a century earlier. The settlement was purchased by Jan Sapieha, who fortified it and in 1511 established a town of Magdeburg law. In 1513, Jan Sapieha became voivode of the newly founded Lithuanian voivodeship of Podlaskie. In 1569, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania merged with Poland through the Union of Lublin, and by the Union of Brest of 1596, the Orthodox church of Lithuania acknowledged the authority of the pope, that way becoming “Uniate” or Greek Catholic.