Chyże is a
village in the administrative district of
Gmina Bełżec
Gmina Bełżec is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Bełżec, which lies approximately south of Tomaszów Lubelski and south-east of the re ...
, within
Tomaszów Lubelski County,
Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of
Bełżec
Belzec (English: or , Polish: ) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all History of Jews in Poland, Polish Jews, a major part of the "Fina ...
, south of
Tomaszów Lubelski, and south-east of the regional capital
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...
.
The village is located in the historical region
Galicia
Galicia may refer to:
Geographic regions
* Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain
** Gallaecia, a Roman province
** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia
** The medieval King ...
.
References
Villages in Tomaszów Lubelski County
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