Wojcieszków
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Wojcieszków () is a village in Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Wojcieszków. The village was a town from 1540 to 1819.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Wojcieszków
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Wojcieszków, kościół.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church of the Sacred Heart
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Voivodeship
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Lublin
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Łuków
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- Gmina
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Wojcieszków
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- Poland
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- bottom
- Settlement.population_total
- 1100
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Wojcieszków
- Country
- Poland
- Located in
- Gmina Wojcieszków
- Population
- 1079
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Wojcieszków, kościół.jpg
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- Commons category
- Wojcieszków
- postal code
- 21-411
- male population
- 520
- female population
- 559
- P8168
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Encyclopedic overview
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Wojcieszków () is a village in Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Wojcieszków. The village was a town from 1540 to 1819.
==History== The village of Wojcieszkow was founded in 1437 by a local nobleman Klemens Bielinski. In the same year, Bishop of Kraków Zbigniew Olesnicki established a Roman Catholic parish church here. On January 21, 1540, upon request of Mikolaj Dzik, the owner of Wojcieszkow, King Sigismund I Old granted Magdeburg rights to it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wojcieszków” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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