Łużyce is the part of
Dziecinów village,
Gmina Sobienie-Jeziory
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Gmina Sobienie-Jeziory is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Sobienie-Jeziory, which lies approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of Otwock ...
, in
Poland
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. From 1975 to 1998 this place was in
Siedlce Voivodeship
Siedlce Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975–1998, superseded by Masovian Voivodeship and Lublin Voivodeship. Its capital city was Siedlce.
Major cities and towns (population ...
. It lies approximately north-west of
Sobienie-Jeziory
Sobienie-Jeziory is a village in Otwock County, Poland. As of 2000, the population was 700. It is the capital of a Gmina Sobienie-Jeziory (commune). It lies approximately south of Otwock and south-east of Warsaw.
In the 18th century, Jacek Jez ...
, south of
Otwock, and south-east of
Warsaw
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.
The name of the place (probably) comes from local
Mazovian word "łurzyce" which means area located near the river ("urzecze" in
Polish
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) and is not connected to the word Łużyce (which means
Lusatia
Lusatia (german: Lausitz, pl, Łużyce, hsb, Łužica, dsb, Łužyca, cs, Lužice, la, Lusatia, rarely also referred to as Sorbia) is a historical region in Central Europe, split between Germany and Poland. Lusatia stretches from the Bóbr ...
) in Polish. It means that etymologically correct spelling of the name of this part of the village is ''Łurzyce''. The name ''Łużyce'' is present in official Polish National Register of Territorial Division (TERYT).
From the mid-1970s until 1998, this area administratively belonged to the Siedlce Voivodeship.
Villages in Otwock County
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